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From Bounded Rationality to Bounded Ethicality---]On the Bounded Rationality in Ethical Decision Making |
1.School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University;
2.School of Management, Nanjing University |
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Abstract In ethical decision making, man shows only bounded ethicality, like overclaiming credit, implicit discrimination, ingroup favoritism, overdiscounting the future and conflicts of interest. The different statuses of “should self” and “want self” at the three stages of prediction, action, and evaluation, the ethical fading during the action phase and the cognitive distortions during the evaluation phase are main reasons behind bounded ethicality. In order to mend bounded ethicality, the decision maker should recognize multiple selves, listen to the “want self” during prediction, increase the influence of the “should self” during action, decrease the influence of the “want self” during action and correct cognitive distortions during evaluation.
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