The Immorality of Textualism

The Role of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning on Personnel Organizational Immorality

Background: An important factor in reducing institutional immorality within organizations, is knowledge management and organizational learning that various studies have pointed to these factors somehow. This article aims to explain the role of organizational learning and knowledge management in Staff immorality. Method: The research method was descriptive and correlational. The population of th...

Textualism and the Bill of Rights

A Study of the Costs and Benefits of Textualism: The Supreme Court's Bankruptcy Cases

On the limits of the relation of disgust to judgments of immorality

Two correlational studies (ns = 400; 90) examined the association of judgments of immorality and disgust (hypothesized in much current research and theory). Across 40 scenarios in Study 1, immorality was positively correlated with negative emotions, especially anger. With anger partialed, disgust was significantly, but weakly, correlated with immorality, r(38) = 0.22, p < 0.05. Study 2 asked wh...

4400 Implied Terms and Interpretation in Contract Law

This chapter examines the economic arguments for textualism and contextualism, the two primary methodologies used by courts to determine the intentions of contracting parties with respect to their performance obligations. Textualism, which is rooted in the idea of complete contracting, calls for a more restrictive approach to implied terms and interpretation than contextualism, which is rooted ...