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==January 10==
 
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1. Describe Ariely's "matrix test" on cheating and discuss it's implications, in your view.
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2. How did Jonathan Haidt challenge the consensus in moral psychology established by Piaget and Kohlberg?
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3. What is the point of Haidt's "harmless taboo violations" research? 
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4. What is ethics for, according to Haidt? Why does he think this (bring later content to bear on this question as well)?
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==January 14==
 
==January 14==
 
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==January 15==

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All exams are based on these study questions. You are strongly encouraged to keep notes on these study questions as the semester proceeds. This will make you preparation for the mid-term and final much more efficient and productive.

January 07

1st class meeting. No study questions.

January 08

1. How does Cooper define ethics? What are some other approaches?

2. What was the Zimbardo prison experiment and what lessons can be drawn from it?

3. Identify six core ethical principles or intuitions that moral theories typically reference.

January 10

1. Describe Ariely's "matrix test" on cheating and discuss it's implications, in your view.

2. How did Jonathan Haidt challenge the consensus in moral psychology established by Piaget and Kohlberg?

3. What is the point of Haidt's "harmless taboo violations" research?

4. What is ethics for, according to Haidt? Why does he think this (bring later content to bear on this question as well)?

January 14

January 15

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January 21

January 22

January 24

January 28

January 29

January 31

February 04

February 05

February 07

February 11

February 12

February 14

February 18

February 19

February 21

February 25

February 26

February 27

March 04

March 05

March 07

March 18

March 19

March 21

March 25

March 26

March 28

April 01

April 02

April 04

April 08

April 09

April 11