Department of Psychology, Florida State University.
J Appl Behav Anal. 2021 Jan;54(1):192-196. doi: 10.1002/jaba.788.
In the recent article, "Descriptive and Normative Ethical Behavior Appear to be Functionally Distinct," the case was presented for an analysis of ethical conduct based on the Western philosophical approach derived from descriptive and normative ethics (Cox, 2020). The author conducted two experiments with graduate students evaluating whether these two approaches were functionally related. Participants gave forced-choice as well as free responses that were later hand-coded. Cox concluded that descriptive and normative ethics are functionally distinct. A critique of this general approach is offered based on a concern that this approach may not be steering the field in a direction that is ultimately useful for practitioners or relevant in therapeutic settings. Suggestions for future directions for practical ethical research are offered which, we might hope, should provide us with a better understanding of the variables controlling ethical conduct in practical situations.
在最近的一篇文章《描述性和规范性伦理行为似乎在功能上有所不同》中，提出了一种基于西方哲学方法的伦理行为分析，这种方法源于描述性和规范性伦理学（Cox，2020）。作者对研究生进行了两项实验，以评估这两种方法是否在功能上相关。参与者给出了强制性选择和自由反应，这些反应后来被人工编码。考克斯得出结论，描述性和规范性伦理学在功能上是不同的。本文基于一种担忧，对这种普遍方法提出了批评，即这种方法可能不会引导该领域朝着对实践者有用或在治疗环境中相关的方向发展。本文还为实践性伦理研究的未来方向提供了建议，我们希望这些建议能让我们更好地理解控制实际情况下伦理行为的变量。
