IDEA #52
It’s easier to be forgiven than to ask for permission
Individuals judge future potential ethical transgressions (that haven’t occurred yet) worse than misdeeds already committed.
What you need to know
Eugene Caruso, an associate professor of behavioural science at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, analysed seven different studies where participants judged a potential ethical transgression to be both more unfair and prompt worse negative emotions if they believed the transgression was still to take place than if it had already. In one study, 1,600 individuals at Harvard University were confronted with the following ...
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