Over the past several years, the business community has devoted considerable attention to corporate responsibility, in order to address significant social and environmental questions with value for business and society. Organizational activities are expected to be transparent to governments, investors, and other stakeholders. Enterprises, governmental institutions, and the public in general ben...

This paper studies how different behavioural norms affect the individual and social welfare in a population with heterogeneous preferences. We assume preferences are private information, and that interactions between individuals do not involve communication, nor bargaining. We first compare the so-called golden rules of Jesus (“do to your neighbours what you would like them do to you”) and Hill...

Prosocial norms like reciprocity, social responsibility, altruism, and volunteerism are ethical standards and beliefs that youth development programs often want to promote. This paper reviews evolutionary, social-cognitive, and developmental theories of prosocial development and analyzes how young people learn and adopt prosocial norms. The paper showed that very few current theories explicitly...

Business educators have increased the focus on ethics in the classroom. In order for students to become ethical professionals, they must first be held to an ethical standard as students. As information technology continues to permeate every aspect of students’ lives, it becomes increasingly important to understand student decision-making in this context. This study seeks to apply a modified for...

OBJECTIVE This study tested key variations in the question-behavior effect against a control condition or an implementation intention condition on returning to give blood among lapsed donors (individuals who had not given blood in the past 2 years). DESIGN At baseline, 7,000 lapsed donors were randomized to 1 of 6 experimental conditions or to a control condition. Participants in the experime...

BACKGROUND Euthanasia remains controversial in Canada and an issue of debate among physicians. Most studies have explored the opinion of health professionals regarding its legalization, but have not investigated their intentions when faced with performing euthanasia. These studies are also considered atheoretical. The purposes of the present study were to fill this gap in the literature by iden...

Distributive justice concerns how individuals and societies distribute benefits and burdens in a just or moral manner. We combined distribution choices with functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the central problem of distributive justice: the trade-off between equity and efficiency. We found that the putamen responds to efficiency, whereas the insula encodes inequity, and the ca...

using 3 psychological scales, this study examined the level of emotional intelligence, moral judgment, and leadership of more than 200 gifted high school students who participated in an accelerative academic program or an enrichment leadership program through a university-based gifted institute. Major findings include that on emotional intelligence, gifted males were comparable to students in t...

Imbued with profound historical consciousness, the Chinese people are Homo Historiens in every sense of the term. To be human in China, to a very large extent, is to be historical which means to live up to the paradigmatic past today. Therefore, historical thinking in traditional China is moral thinking. The Chinese historico-moral thinking centers around the notion of dao that is Heavenly prin...