Do university ethics classes influence students' real-world moral choices? We aimed to
conduct the first controlled study of the effects of ordinary philosophical ethics classes on …

Researchers identified two divergent theories concerning ethics education. The first states
that ethics education increases an individual's ability to reason critically when confronted …

A large literature demonstrates that moral convictions guide many of our thoughts,
behaviors, and social interactions. Yet, we know little about how these moral convictions …

The authors analyzed the reactions of various academic-level respondent groups to 14 short
scenarios reflecting ethical dilemmas in higher education and research. As the authors …

In this study, we present evidence on the changes inethical cognition of business students
over afour-year period. We use the Principled Score (P-score) of the Defining Issues Test to …

I assessed change in students' moral reasoning following five 75-min classes on business
ethics and two assignments utilizing a novel pedagogical approach designed to foster …

Do philosophy professors specializing in ethics behave, on average, any morally better than
do other professors? If not, do they at least behave more consistently with their expressed …

We review and present a new meta‐analysis of research suggesting that ethicists in the
United States appear to behave no morally better overall than do non‐ethicist professors …

We survey students at two Southern United States universities (one public and one private,
religiously affiliated). Using a survey instrument that includes 25 vignettes, we test two …

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a natural experiment involving
academic cheating by university students. We explore the relationship of moral judgment (as …