Exam 2: Stepping Out of the Shadows

Discuss 2 important factors of The Bathsheba Syndrome.

______ engage in destructive behavior while obeying their leaders.

Diffusing or spreading out responsibility also lessens personal accountability for immoral behavior.

______________ is the conviction that we have motivation and skills to make an ethical choice and follow through on it.

All of the following were identified in the text as signs of selfishness EXCEPT:

Describe a leader who acted unethically because she or he suffered from an inactive or overactive moral imagination. Explain why her or his moral imagination failed what she or he should have done differently.

Conformity is a particular problem for ______.

______ are colluders who are "true believers."

The experiment most aligned with the concept of obedience is the ______ experiment.

Followers may unintentionally cast shadows because they lack the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience.

Moral justification involves comparing unethical or criminal acts with even worse activities, thus making them appear more tolerable.

______, perhaps the largest group of susceptible followers, are generally passive and motivated by fear.

___________ have a total lack of conscience.

Highly ______ individuals are skilled at manipulating others for their own ends.

Hiding suffering is one way to disregard the consequences of harmful actions and reduce the likelihood of self-recrimination.

Label and briefly describe three of the six "internal enemies or monsters" your book is referring to.

______, are our beliefs about other groups of people, are closely related to ethnocentrism.

Moral imagination consists of all of the following EXCEPT:

Describe a time when you were victimized by your faulty decision-making. Identify the faulty assumptions you followed and how you might avoid such traps in the future.

With the concept of ______, the idea is that it is easier to mistreat others if they are seen as less than fully human.