Ethics Education: Emotional Impact

This lecture discusses the impact of emotions on ethics education, focusing on the use of emotionally rich cases to improve learning and transfer of ethical decision-making. Emotions play a crucial role in ethical decision-making, enhancing case-based learning and making cases more realistic. The study investigates how emotional case content influences knowledge acquisition and transfer in future ethical decision-making tasks. Results show that emotional case content enhances retention and transfer of ethical principles, leading to better recall and performance. Additionally, the lecture explores the role of self-focused emotions like guilt, shame, and embarrassment in ethical decision-making, highlighting their effects on sensemaking processes, moral intensity perceptions, and decision ethicality. The study reveals the differential effects of these emotions and the impact of cognitive reappraisal on ethical decision-making.