caa a22 4500 605484600 CHVBK 20210128100437.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2228-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2228-2 Disgusted or Happy, It is not so Bad: Emotional Mini-Max in Unethical Judgments [Elektronische Daten] [Karen Winterich, Andrea Morales, Vikas Mittal] Although prior work on ethical decision-making has examined the direct impact of magnitude of consequences as well as the direct impact of emotions on ethical judgments, the current research examines the interaction of these two constructs. Building on previous research finding disgust to have a varying impact on ethical judgments depending on the specific behavior being evaluated, we investigate how disgust, as well as happiness and sadness, moderates the effect of magnitude of consequences on an individual's judgments of another person's unethical behavior. Specifically, we propose and find that because disgust and happiness are both associated with more heuristic-based processing, they both lead to a stronger reliance on the magnitude of consequences when forming ethical judgments. In contrast, because sad and neutral emotional states are associated with more systematic processing, they both result in a weaker reliance on the magnitude of consequences. As such, the effect of magnitude of consequences on judgments of unethical behaviors is stronger when individuals making the judgments are experiencing disgust or happiness versus sadness or a neutral state. This research shows that ethical judgment severity is contingent on individual-level factors, particularly the current emotional state being experienced by the individual, interacting with magnitude of consequences to impact the ethical decision-making process. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Ethical decision-making nationallicence Judgments of unethical behavior nationallicence Magnitude of consequences nationallicence Emotion nationallicence Affect nationallicence Winterich Karen Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, 449 Business Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut Morales Andrea W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874106, 85287-4106, Tempe, AZ, USA aut Mittal Vikas Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, 77005, Houston, TX, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/2(2015-08-01), 343-360 0167-4544 130:2<343 2015 130 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2228-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2228-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Winterich Karen Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, 449 Business Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Morales Andrea W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874106, 85287-4106, Tempe, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mittal Vikas Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, 77005, Houston, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/2(2015-08-01), 343-360 0167-4544 130:2<343 2015 130 10551