Moral Attentiveness: Who Pays Attention to the Moral Aspects of Life?

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1027-1041

  Reynolds, Scott J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; moral attentiveness; moral awareness; moral behavior; moral decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 54449100375     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.5.1027     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Agle B.R., Mitchell R.K., and Sonnenfeld J.A. Who matters to CEOs? An investigation of stakeholder attributes and salience, corporate performance, and CEO values. Academy of Management Journal 42 (1999) 507-525
2. Ahmed S.A., and Jackson D.N. Psychographics for social policy decisions: Welfare assistance. Journal of Consumer Research 5 (1979) 229-239
3. Akaah I.P. The influence of organizational rank and role on marketing professionals' ethical judgments. Journal of Business Ethics 15 (1996) 605-613
4. Ambrose M.L., and Schminke M. Sex differences in business ethics: The importance of perceptions. Journal of Managerial Issues 11 (1999) 454-474
5. Andersen S.M., Glassman N.S., Chen S., and Cole S.W. Transference in social perception: The role of chronic accessibility in significant-other representations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 69 (1995) 41
6. Anderson J.C., and Gerbing D.W. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach. Psychological Bulletin 103 (1988) 411-423
7. Aquino K., and Reed II A. The self-importance of moral identity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83 (2002) 1423
8. Baab A., and Bebeau M.J. The effect of instruction on ethical sensitivity. Journal of Dental Education 54 (1990) 44
9. Bandura A. Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory (1986), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
10. Bargh J.A. Attention and automaticity in the processing of self-relevant information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43 (1982) 425-436
11. Bargh J.A. Automatic and conscious processing of social information. In: Wyer Jr. R.S., and Srull T.K. (Eds). Handbook of social cognition 3 (1984), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 1-44
12. Bargh J.A., Bond R.N., Lombardi W.L., and Tota M.E. The additive nature of chronic and temporary sources of construct accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50 (1986) 869-879
13. Bargh J.A., and Pratto F. Individual construct accessibility and perceptual selection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 22 (1986) 293-311
14. Bargh J.A., and Thein R.D. Individual construct accessibility, person memory, and the recall-judgment link: The case of information overload. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 49 (1985) 1129-1146
15. Baumeister R.F., Bratslavsky E., Finkenauer C., and Vohs K.D. Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology 3 (2001) 323-370
16. Brady F.N. A Janus-headed model of ethical theory: Looking two ways at business-society issues. Academy of Management Review 10 (1985) 568-577
17. Brady F.N., and Wheeler G.E. An empirical study of ethical predispositions. Journal of Business Ethics 15 (1996) 927-941
18. Brass D.J., Butterfield K.D., and Skaggs B.C. Relationships and unethical behavior: A social network perspective. Academy of Management Review 23 (1998) 14-31
19. Browne M.W., and Cudeck R. Alternative ways of assessing model fit. Sociological Methods and Research 21 (1992) 230-258
20. Butterfield K.D., Treviño L.K., and Weaver G.R. Moral awareness in business organizations: Influences of issue-related and social context factors. Human Relations 53 (2000) 981-1018
21. Cook C., Heath F., and Thompson R.L. A meta-analysis of response rates in web- or Internet-based surveys. Educational and Psychological Measurement 60 (2000) 821-836
22. Cronbach L., and Meehl P. Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin 52 (1955) 281-302
23. Devine P.G. Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 56 (1989) 5-18
24. Dilman D. Mail and telephone surveys: The total design method (1978), Wiley, New York
25. Fiske S.T., and Taylor S.E. Social cognition. 1st ed. (1984), Random House, New York
26. Fiske S.T., and Taylor S.E. Social cognition. 2nd ed. (1991), McGraw-Hill, New York
27. Ford R.C., and Richardson W.D. Ethical decision-making: A review of the literature. Journal of Business Ethics 13 (1994) 205-221
28. Goldberg L.R. The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Psychological Assessment 4 (1992) 26-42
29. Haidt J. The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review 108 (2001) 814-834
30. Hays W.L. Statistics (1981), Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York
31. Higgins E.T. Continuities and discontinuities in self-regulatory and self-evaluation processes: A developmental theory relating self and affect. Journal of Personality 57 (1989) 407-444
32. Higgins E.T., and King G.A. Accessibility of social constructs: Information-processing consequences of individual and contextual variability. In: Cantor N., and Kohlstrom J.F. (Eds). Personality, cognition, and social interaction (1981), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 69-122
33. Higgins E.T., King G.A., and Mavin G.H. Individual construct accessibility and subjective impressions and recall. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43 (1982) 35-47
34. Hinkin T.R. A review of scale development practices in the study of organizations. Journal of Management 21 (1995) 967-988
35. Hu L., and Bentler P. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling 6 (1999) 1-56
36. James K. Priming and social categorizational factors: Impact on awareness of emergency situations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 12 (1986) 462-467
37. Jones T.M. Ethical decision making by individuals in organizations: An issue-contingent model. Academy of Management Review 16 (1991) 366-395
38. Kohlberg L. The philosophy of moral development (1981), Harper & Row, San Francisco
39. Kohn M., and Schooler C. Work and personality: An inquiry into the impact of social stratification (1983), Ablex, Norwood, NJ
40. Levenson H. Differentiating among internality, powerful others, and chance. In: Lefcourt H. (Ed). Research with the locus of control construct 1 (1981), Academic Press, New York 15-63
41. Loe T.W., Ferrell L., and Mansfield P. A review of empirical studies assessing ethical decision making in business. Journal of Business Ethics 25 (2000) 185-204
42. May D.R., and Pauli K.P. The role of moral intensity in ethical decision-making. Business and Society 41 (2002) 84-117
43. McKenzie-Mohr D., and Zanna M.P. Treating women as sexual objects: Look to the (gender schematic) male who has viewed pornography. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 16 (1990) 296-308
44. Meier B.P., and Robinson M.D. Does quick to blame mean quick to anger? The role of agreeableness in dissociating blame and anger. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 30 (2002) 856
45. Messick D.M., and Bazerman M.H. Ethical leadership and the psychology of decision making. Sloan Management Review 37 2 (1996) 9-22
46. Mitchell T.R., and Daniels D. Motivation. In: Borman W.C., Ilgen D.R., and Klimoski R.J. (Eds). Comprehensive handbook of psychology. Volume 12: Industrial and organizational psychology (2002), Wiley, New York 225-254
47. Moon Y.S., and Franke G.R. Cultural influences on agency practitioners' ethical perceptions. Journal of Advertising 29 (2000) 51-63
48. Newman L.S., Duff K.J., and Baumeister R.F. A new look at defensive projection: Thought suppression, accessibility, and biased person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 72 (1997) 980-1001
49. Newstrom J.W., and Ruch W.A. Marketing ethics of management and the management of ethics. MSU Business Topics 23 (1975) 29-37
50. Nunnally J.C., and Bernstein I.H. Psychometric theory. 3rd ed. (1994), McGraw-Hill, New York
51. O'Fallon M.J., and Butterfield K.D. A review of the empirical ethical decision-making literature: 1996-2003. Journal of Business Ethics 59 (2005) 375-413
52. Paulhus D.L. Two-component models of socially desirable responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 46 (1984) 598-609
53. Randall D.M., and Fernandes M.F. The social desirability response bias in ethics research. Journal of Business Ethics 10 (1991) 805-817
54. Rest J.R. Moral development: Advances in research and theory (1986), Praeger, New York
55. Reynolds S.J. Moral awareness and ethical predispositions: Investigating the role of individual differences in the recognition of moral issues. Journal of Applied Psychology 91 (2006) 233-243
56. Reynolds S.J. A neurocognitive model of the ethical decision-making process: Implications for study and practice. Journal of Applied Psychology 91 (2006) 737-748
57. Reynolds S.J., and Ceranic T. The effects of moral judgment and moral identity on moral behavior: An empirical examination of the moral individual. Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (2007) 1610-1624
58. Robles R., Smith R., Carver C.S., and Wellens A.R. Influence of subliminal visual images on the experience of anxiety. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 13 (1987) 399-410
59. Shaub M., Finn D.W., and Munter P. The effects of auditor's ethical orientation on commitment and ethical sensitivity. Behavioral Research in Accounting 5 (1993) 145-169
60. Shen F. Chronic accessibility and individual cognitions: Examining the effects of message frames in political advertisements. Journal of Communication 54 (2004) 123
61. Sparks J.R., and Hunt S.D. Marketing researcher ethical sensitivity: Conceptualization, measurement, and exploratory investigation. Journal of Marketing 62 (1998) 92-109
62. Tabachnick B., and Fidell L. Using multivariate statistics. 4th ed. (2001), Allyn & Bacon, Needham Heights, MA
63. Taylor S.E. A categorization approach to stereotyping. In: Hamilton D.L. (Ed). Cognitive processes in stereotyping and intergroup behavior (1981), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 88-114
64. Taylor S.E. Positive illusions (1989), Basic Books, New York
65. Tesser A. Self-generated attitude change. In: Berkowitz L. (Ed). Advances in experimental social psychology 11 (1978), Academic Press, New York 289-338
66. Treviño L.K. Ethical decision making in organizations: A person-situation interactionist model. Academy of Management Review 11 (1986) 601-617
67. Treviño L.K., Weaver G.W., and Reynolds S.J. Behavioral ethics in organizations: A review. Journal of Management 32 (2006) 951-990
68. Vandenberghe C., Bentein K., Michon R., Chebat J., Tremblay M., and Fils J. An examination of the role of perceived support and employee commitment in employee-customer encounters. Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (2007) 1177-1187
69. Velasquez M. Why ethics matters: A defense of ethics in business organizations. Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (1996) 201-222
70. Wagner S., and Dittmar L. The unexpected benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley. Harvard Business Review 84 (2006) 133
71. Weaver G.R., and Treviño L.K. Compliance and values oriented ethics programs: Influences on employees' attitudes and behavior. Business Ethics Quarterly 9 (1999) 315-336
72. Weaver G.R., Treviño L.K., and Cochran P.L. Integrated and decoupled corporate social performance: Management commitments, external pressures, and corporate ethics practices. Academy of Management Journal 42 (1999) 539-552
73. Weick K.E. The social psychology of organizing. 2nd ed. (1979), McGraw-Hill, New York
74. Widaman K.F. Hierarchically nested covariance structure models for multitrait-multimethod data. Applied Psychological Measurement 9 (1985) 1-26