The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension in Chinese mainland.
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| Title: | The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension in Chinese mainland. |
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| Authors: | Hou, Tiantian (AUTHOR), Ding, Xiaojun (AUTHOR), Yu, Feng (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Philosophical Psychology. Feb2024, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p396-427. 32p. |
| Subjects: | Moral attitudes, Attitude-behavior consistency, Normativity (Ethics), Honesty, Research personnel, Ethics, College teachers, Confucian ethics |
| Abstract: | The relationship between professional ethical reflection and corresponding moral behavior is an important theme of moral psychology in recent years. Following Schönegger and Wagner's research in German-speaking countries, through a replication-extension of the original US-based research carried out by Schwitzgebel and Rust, we aim at examining their results in the Chinese context. The previous researchers have shown that ethical reflection generally has no positive effect on moral behavior. A cross validation of this result was conducted in Chinese mainland, and three issues concerning Confucian virtues were added. Through reaching out to 4482 professors and collecting 368 responses altogether, we attempted to explore whether professional ethical reflection can influence normative attitude and the moral attitude-behavior consistency. Unfortunately, the results failed to show a statistically significant difference between ethicists and other professors on most of the moral issues, with the exception of paying academic membership fees and vegetarianism, wherein ethicists do express more stringent normative attitudes, and their moral attitude and self-reported behavior are statistically consistent. Notably, Chinese professors mainly expressed morally neutral attitudes toward the issue of eating meat, and they tended to believe that ethical reflection contributes to more and better moral behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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