influence and normative social influence. • Informational social influence or “social proof”‚ our desire to be right in situations in which the correct action or judgement is not obvious and we need information. Example: On your way to a concert‚ but not sure where the entrance is‚ lots of people are going in a certain direction‚ you follow everyone else. You follow because you lack the information so you do whatever everyone else is doing (they must know something you don’t know). • Normative social influence
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Normative Theories Application Normative ethical theories can generally be divided into three types: teleological‚ deontological‚ and virtue ethics. The first two types are considered as action-based theories because they focus entirely upon the actions which a person performs. The last one focuses on training decision maker’s character. Teleological theories are characterized focus primarily on the consequences. In order to make the correct ethical decisions‚ decision-maker has to evaluate
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Introduction to Macroeconomics – three approaches After the Great Depression in the 1920s‚ Simon Kuznets first developed the idea of an instrument‚ which could - just like a clinical thermometer - measure the economic development within a country‚ the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This new approach in modern Macroeconomics‚ though it cannot measure human happiness‚ admittedly is the most important indicator of a national economic performance. In order to raise a national GDP‚ the state’s government
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of normative development is a complex and much debated one. It is an issue that is continually researched by scientists and psychologists alike as they seek to understand the changing processes that shape development over the human lifespan. One of the fundamental questions that underlie this research is whether normative development actually exists. The volume of statistical data on normative development is constantly changing and growing adding greater complexity of the issue. Normative development
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NORMATIVE ETHICAL THEORIES Objective • Discuss the normative ethical theories L2: Normative Ethical Theories Beliefs about how people should behave can be classified into at least 2 major categories: Teleological theories (Consequentialism) Right actions are those that produce the most or optimize the consequences of one’s choices. Behaviour is ‘ethical’ if it results in desirable behaviour 1. 2. 3. 4. Ethical egoism Ethical elitism Ethical parochialism Ethical universalism Deontological theories
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POSITIVE AND NORMATIVE ECONOMICS Positive economics deals with what is with how the economy works‚ plain and simple. If we lower income tax rates in the United States next year‚ will the economy grow faster? If so‚ by how much? And what effect will this have on total employment? These are all positive economic questions. We may disagree about the answers‚ but we can all agree that the correct answers to these questions do exist— we just have to find them. Normative economics concerns itself with
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Positive and normative statements The importance of detecting bias in arguments Whenever you are reading articles on current affairs it is important to be able to distinguish between objective and subjective statements. Often‚ the person writing an article has a particular argument to make and will include subjective statements about what ought to be or what should be happening. Their articles carry value judgements; they are trying to persuade you of the particular merits or demerits of
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enjoyable. Sometimes everyone must consider if what they have done‚ or how they make decisions‚ is acceptable‚ or even logical. As discussed in the paper written by J.N. Hooker entitled‚ “Three Kinds of Ethics”‚ it goes on to describe how the three kinds of ethics are applied‚ and created. To distinguish between the three kinds‚ we must dedicate thought to our actions‚ and consider why we make these choices. Since the world isn’t perfect‚ and we cannot stop the criminal‚ let’s put a halt to the crimes
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Normative Dimensions of Leadership University of Phoenix LDR/736 Architecture of Leadership Normative Dimensions of Leadership Normative dimensions of leadership theory looks at the big picture of the organization to work out challenges and find solutions to problems. According to Harvey (2001) The normative leadership model approach is a caring type of leadership where the leader has vision and implements ideas‚ arguing that a caring type of leadership is actually good for profits in
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aspect because it explains our behavior towards others and our understanding of one’s perspective. There are many qualities of theory of mind which describes how one feels about singing and dancing in public‚ such as‚ Autism Spectrum Disorder and Normative social influence. Theory of mind is being able to understand that others have their own perspective‚ opinion‚ motives‚ and feelings that differs from one’s own perspective‚ opinion‚ motives‚ and feelings (Chaplin & Norton 2015). Those that
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