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Emotions play a major role in ethical decision making. Inner-directed emotions like guilt motivate ethical behavior, while outer-directed emotions like anger discourage unethical acts. Positive emotions such as gratitude can also prompt people to help others due to empathy. While people believe philosophy or religion guide decisions, emotions significantly influence choices. Recent research shows emotions enable fast decisions and signal unconscious preferences, though intensity can override rational thinking and bias judgments. Emotional decision making provides both benefits like expertise and drawbacks like justifying poor choices.

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Emotions play a major role in ethical decision making. Inner-directed emotions like guilt motivate ethical behavior, while outer-directed emotions like anger discourage unethical acts. Positive emotions such as gratitude can also prompt people to help others due to empathy. While people believe philosophy or religion guide decisions, emotions significantly influence choices. Recent research shows emotions enable fast decisions and signal unconscious preferences, though intensity can override rational thinking and bias judgments. Emotional decision making provides both benefits like expertise and drawbacks like justifying poor choices.

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Arlyn P.

Silva March 26, 2021


BSED FIL-2

ETHICS
Activity #4

Emotions – that is to say feelings and intuitions – play a major role in most of the ethical
decisions people make. Most people do not realize how much their emotions direct their moral
choices. But experts think it is impossible to make any important moral judgments without
emotions. Inner-directed negative emotions like guilt, embarrassment, and shame often motivate
people to act ethically. Outer-directed negative emotions, on the other hand, aim to discipline or
punish. For example, people often direct anger, disgust, or contempt at those who have acted
unethically. This discourages others from behaving the same way. Positive emotions like
gratitude and admiration, which people may feel when they see another acting with compassion
or kindness, can prompt people to help others. Emotions evoked by suffering, such as sympathy
and empathy, often lead people to act ethically toward others. Indeed, empathy is the central
moral emotion that most commonly motivates prosocial activity such as altruism, cooperation,
and generosity. So, while we may believe that our moral decisions are influenced most by our
philosophy or religious values, in truth our emotions play a significant role in our ethical
decision-making.

Recent research has revealed a number of positive elements of emotions in decision making.

 A totally emotional decision is very fast in comparison to a rational decision. This is


reactive (and largely subconscious) and can be useful when faced with immediate danger,
or in decisions of minimal significance.
 Some studies suggest an emotional insistence to respect the life of another human being.
 Emotions may provide a way for coding and compacting experience, enabling fast
response selection. This may point to why expert's "gut" level decisions have high
accuracy rates.
 Emotions are possible signals from the subconscious that provide information about what
we really choose.
 Decisions that start with logic may need emotions to enable the final selection,
particularly when confronted with near equal options.
 Individuals care about the emotional features of decision options.
 Emotions often drive us in directions conflicting with self-interest.

Emotional decision making can also come with a number of negatives.


 We make quick decisions without knowing why, and then create rational reasons to
justify a poor emotional decision.
 Intensity of emotions can override rational decision making in cases where it is clearly
needed.
 Immediate and unrelated emotions can create mistakes by distorting and creating bias in
judgments. In some cases this can lead to unexpected and reckless action.
 Projected emotions can lead to errors because people are subject to systemic inaccuracy
about how they will feel in the future.
References:
https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/moral-emotions#:~:text=Emotions
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%20choices.&text=Inner%2Ddirected%20negative%20emotions%20like,motivate%20people
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https://www.decision-making-solutions.com/emotional_decision_making.html

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