Abstract:Behavioral ethics refers to a stream of social scientific research concerned with describing, explaining, and potentially predicting individual behavior that involves moral content and/or moral consequences. It represents a descriptive approach to ethics in that the researcher is primarily interested in understanding behavior as it occurs within the constraints of existing social prescriptions.
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