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  • January 2015
  • Article

Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making

By: Jooa Julia Lee and F. Gino
This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses influences people's decisions in moral dilemmas. We hypothesize that emotion regulation—mainly suppression and reappraisal—will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Moral Sensibility; Emotions
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Lee, Jooa Julia, and F. Gino. "Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 126 (January 2015): 49–64.
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Moral Dilemmas and Trust in Leaders during a Global Health Crisis

By: Jim A. C. Everett, Clara Colombatto, Edmond Awad, Paulo Boggio, Björn Bos, William J. Brady, Megha Chawla, Vladimir Chituc, Dongil Chung, Moritz A. Drupp, Shristi Goel, Brit Grosskopf, Frederik Hjorth, Alissa Ji, Caleb Kealoha, Judy S. Kim, Yangfei Lin, Yina Ma, Michel André Maréchal, Federico Mancinelli, Christoph Mathys, Asmus L. Olsen, Graeme Pearce, Annayah M. B. Prosser, Niv Reggev, Nicholas Sabin, Julien Senn, Yeon Soon Shin, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Hallgeir Sjåstad, Madelijn Strick, Sunhae Sul, Lars Tummers, Monique Turner, Hongbo Yu, Yoonseo Zoh and Molly J. Crockett
Trust in leaders is central to citizen compliance with public policies. One potential determinant of trust is how leaders resolve conflicts between utilitarian and non-utilitarian ethical principles in moral dilemmas. Past research suggests that utilitarian responses... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Impartial Beneficence; Utilitarian Responses; Trust; Ethics; Public Opinion; Leadership Style
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Everett, Jim A. C., Clara Colombatto, Edmond Awad, Paulo Boggio, Björn Bos, William J. Brady, Megha Chawla, Vladimir Chituc, Dongil Chung, Moritz A. Drupp, Shristi Goel, Brit Grosskopf, Frederik Hjorth, Alissa Ji, Caleb Kealoha, Judy S. Kim, Yangfei Lin, Yina Ma, Michel André Maréchal, Federico Mancinelli, Christoph Mathys, Asmus L. Olsen, Graeme Pearce, Annayah M. B. Prosser, Niv Reggev, Nicholas Sabin, Julien Senn, Yeon Soon Shin, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Hallgeir Sjåstad, Madelijn Strick, Sunhae Sul, Lars Tummers, Monique Turner, Hongbo Yu, Yoonseo Zoh, and Molly J. Crockett. "Moral Dilemmas and Trust in Leaders during a Global Health Crisis." Nature Human Behaviour 5, no. 8 (August 2021): 1074–1088.
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Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's?: Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment

By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman
Should a Catholic hospital abort a life-threatening pregnancy or let a pregnant woman die? Should a religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that... View Details
Keywords: Normative Conflict; Inaction; Indirectness; Deontology; Utilitarianism; Sunday Effect; Religion; Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Judgments
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Barak-Corren, Netta, and Max Bazerman. "Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's? Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment." Judgment and Decision Making 12, no. 3 (May 2017): 280–296.
  • September–October 2020
  • Article

A New Model for Ethical Leadership

By: Max Bazerman
Rather than try to follow a set of simple rules (“Don’t lie.” “Don’t cheat.”), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating the most value for society. This utilitarian view, Bazerman argues, blends philosophical thought with business school... View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Society
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Bazerman, Max. "A New Model for Ethical Leadership." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 90–97.
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Keywords: Policy-making; Procedural Justice; Ethics; Decision Making; Fairness
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Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Working Paper, October 2019.
  • November 26, 2019
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Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Keywords: Policy Making; Procedural Justice; Ethics; Decision Making; Policy; Fairness
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Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 48 (November 26, 2019).

    Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good

    The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details

    • 10 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

    with significant failure. So leadership can't be simply evaluated on its utilitarian outcomes. Given the complexity of the phenomenon and its multidisciplinary nature, including its inability to answer basic questions such as whether... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • 29 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 29

    Abstract—We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. In... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

    of the industry, but now it's responsible for much of the growth trajectory." The Guardians And The Entrepreneurs So how did the Swiss watchmakers know when to re-embrace mechanical watches? According to several industry CEOs that... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products
    • 04 Nov 2014
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    First Look: November 4

    Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Oct 2009
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    First Look: October 6

    emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling FDI to promote growth through backward linkages. Using realistic parameter values, we quantify the response of growth to FDI and show that an increase in the share of FDI leads to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

    relationships to attain the desired outcome. Of comparable importance is an understanding of why the other partner wishes to engage in the collaboration so that the participant can be responsive to those goals and needs. In thinking about... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
    • 26 Sep 2024
    • HBS Case

    If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

    pass as human; others point to biases and microaggressions in computer-generated speech. Google Maps for ethical leaders Badaracco worries that leaders are caught up in the hype about what machines could do and not focusing enough on what they should do. From View Details
    Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
    • 04 Oct 2016
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    October 4, 2016

    palters convey (“I was misled”). We also find that targets perceive palters to be especially unethical when palters are used in response to direct questions as opposed to when they are unprompted. Taken together, we show that paltering is... View Details
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