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Quiz#1 ETHICAL DILEMMA Do Unethical Decisions come from Bad Character? Why would former New York Attorney General and then rule to help a colleague, overlook information that might Governor Eliot Spitzer decide to use a prostitution ser damage a case we want to make, or lie to avoid a negative vice? Why would highly respected attorney Marc Dreier, consequence-blithely unaware that others might view with degrees from Harvard and Yale and a successful this behavior as unethical. Park Avenue law firm, decide to impersonate people in Why do we do this? Evidence suggests that when we fail order to swindle others? From Tiger Woods to Bernie to notice a decision has an ethical component, it enables Madoff, it's not hard to find examples of unethical be us to behave in a self-interested manner without having havior. But what causes people to make unfortunate to feel badly about it. No wonder, then that people tend choices? to believe they are more ethical than they are. Behavioral genetics research has taught us that virtu Many think that transparency and accountability in ally every human characteristic has genetic origins and crease ethical behavior. Behavioral ethics research, how- that genetic differences are a central reason people differ ever, shows us that often these actions increase unethical in their behavior. Thus, some personality traits probably behavior, because they cause individuals to think disclo predispose people toward unethical behavior. One study sure absolves them of ethical responsibilities to be ob of white-collar criminals, for example, showed they were jective, or to deny to an even greater degree the ethical significantly lower on a conscientiousness scale than the components of their decisions, general population. The first step toward behaving more ethically is, ironi- On the other hand, recent research shows that all of cally, admitting to ourselves that we adhere to ethical stan- us perform unethical behavior to some degree while dards less well than we admit. subconsciously fooling ourselves about it. We may bend a Questions 1. Do you think people see themselves as more ethical than they really are? And you? 2. The authors of one study noted that "disclosures can exacerbate unethical behavior] by causing people to feel absolved of their duty to be objective." Do you agree? Why or why not? 3. Do you think if we admitted it to ourselves times when we behaved unethically we would be less likely to behave unethically in the future