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In our What Happened to You? series, we are looking at trauma, at both the individual and community level. COVID-19 has been a generational trauma, affecting children, families, communities, and whole societies. Health care workers have been among the most deeply impacted. For this episode we're looking at the traumatic impact of COVID on health care workers, through the lens of a concept known as "moral injury." Our two guests are University of Texas at Austin professors Dr. Robert Prentice, professor of business ethics at the McCombs School of Business; and Dr. Read Pierce, professor of internal medicine at Dell Medical School. Episode 139: What Happened to You? Part II: Why We Talk About it https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-happened-to-you-part-ii-why-we-talk-about-it Episode 138: What Happened to You, Part I: Back to School (with Trauma) https://hogg.utexas.edu/what-happened-to-you-part-1 Episode 118: Children in 2021: Grief and Loss https://hogg.utexas.edu/podcast-children-in-2021
Speakers – Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global […]
Emma, Matt, Mike and special guest star, Robert Prentice from Three If By Space talk 'Game of Thrones', Dragon Con, and review 'Crown Heights'.
Emma is in San Diego for Comic Con and is joined by guests Robert Prentice of threeifbyspace.net, Marideth Jacobs of buddyTV.com, and Jennifer Steele of FanBolt. Hear some of their favorite comic con stories and get a box office report all while Jaqai is in a closet under the stairs.
Behavioral ethics investigates why people make the ethical (and unethical) decisions that they do in order to gain insights into how people can improve their ethical decision-making and behavior. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Bounded ethicality explains how predictable organizational pressures and psychological processes cause us to engage in ethically questionable behavior that is inconsistent with our own values and preferences. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Conformity bias refers to our tendency to take cues for proper behavior in most contexts from the actions of others rather than exercise our own independent judgment. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Ethical fading occurs when we are so focused on other aspects of a decision that its ethical dimensions fade from view. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Fundamental attribution error describes how, when judging others’ actions, we tend to give too much causal weight to their character and not enough to the circumstances in which they acted. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Referred to as the “slippery slope,” incrementalism describes how we unconsciously lower our ethical standards over time through small changes in behavior. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
We hate losses about twice as much as we enjoy gains, meaning we are more likely to act unethically to avoid a “loss” than to secure a “gain.” This phenomenon is known as loss aversion. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
When we do something good we get to thinking of ourselves as pretty good people, and can then give ourselves license to fail to live up to our own ethical standards. This phenomenon is known as moral equilibrium. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Obedience to authority describes our tendency to please authority figures. We may place too much emphasis on that goal and, consciously or subconsciously, subordinate the goal of acting ethically. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
The overconfidence bias is our tendency to be more confident in our ability to act ethically than is objectively justified by our abilities and moral character. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Role morality is the tendency we have to use different moral standards for the different “roles” we play in society. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
Framing describes how our responses to situations, including our ethical judgments, are impacted just by how those situations are posed or viewed. Written by Robert Prentice. This video is accompanied by teaching notes to help aid classroom discussion and can be downloaded within this iTunes collection. For more on Ethics Unwrapped please visit our website: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu
In the Elections 2012 coverage on Know, experts from across The University of Texas at Austin weigh in on the politics and the issues, from the economy, the environment and demographics to immigration, energy, social change and more. In this seventh conversation of our elections series, McCombs School of Business Professor Robert Prentice discusses the impact of business ethics scandals on presidential election strategy. Robert Prentice is a lawyer with a focus on corporate governance, regulatory oversight and ethical decision making. He is an expert on securities fraud, insider trading, the value of securities regulation and the legal liability of accountants. He is the founding chair of the newly created Department of Business, Government and Society at the McCombs School. James Henson is a lecturer in the Department of Government and directs the Texas Politics Project, which seeks to educate students and Texans about state government, politics and history through a dynamic website and speaker series. It also conducts regular statewide issues and political polls. The Texas Politics Project is The University of Texas at Austin’s home for the UT/Texas Tribune Poll, a statewide survey of public opinion on issues and elections in Texas.