Chapter 10 Motivated Moral Reasoning

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Is climate change an ethical issue? Examining young adults’ beliefs about climate and morality (2012, background): “…of the causes of the phenomenon to fit and support those preexisting beliefs (this may especially be the case among people who want to deny or avoid personal culpability); such ‘motivated moral reasoning’ is a well-documented and regular occurrence in daily life (see Ditto et al. 2009; Kunda 1990).”
Approach, Ability, Aftermath: A Psychological Process Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work (2015, background): “That is, we may apply different frames as a function of how our context encourages us to do so, or by our own motivated reasoning processes, through which we will impose frames on situations that facilitate the choices we want to make (Ditto et al., 2009; Uhlmann et al., 2009).”