Behavioral Ethics in Practice: Why We Sometimes Make the Wrong Decisions

by Robert Prentice and Cara Biasucci

Book Overview

This book is an accessible, research-based introduction to behavioral ethics. Often ethics education is incomplete because it ignores how and why people make moral decisions. But using exciting new research from fields such as behavioural psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology, the study of behavioural ethics uncovers the common reasons why good people often screw up.

Scientists have long studied the ways human beings make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367341654
• ISBN13: 9780367341657
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"