Behavioral ethics is an emerging field that takes an empirical, social scientific approach to the study of business ethics. In this special issue, we include six articles that fall within the domain of behavioral ethics and that focus on three themes—moral awareness, ethical decision making, and reactions to unethical behavior. Each of the articles sheds additional light on the specific issues ...

Informed consent (IC), a fundamental principle of ethics in medical research, is recognized as a vital component of HIV vaccine trials. There are different notions of IC, some legally based and others based on ethics. It is argued that, though legal indemnity is necessary, vaccine trials should be founded on fully ethical considerations. Various contentious aspects of IC are examined, especiall...

Robot ethics is a branch of applied ethics which endeavours to isolate and analyse ethical issues arising in connection with present and prospective uses of robots. These issues span human autonomy protection and promotion, moral responsibility and liability, privacy, fair access to technological resources, social and cultural discrimination, in addition to the ethical dimensions of personhood ...

Because people often act out of character, some have suggested that character traits do not exist or that they have a negligible impact on our actions. It is situational factors, they argue, that are the primary determinants of our actions, for even minute and irrelevant details of situations have a significant effect on our behavior. Proponents of this view (situationists) suggest that numerou...

rumors regarding the nature and influence of social anxiety that can increase productivity and reduce production and social validity employees, managers, agencies and organizations impair the. in this regard, we expect people who are ethics obligation, understand, analyze and manage rumors, have distinct behaviors. this study aimed to describe concepts such as gossip and review of management pr...