More recently behavioral ethicists in the social sciences have offered research-based accounts of what people actually do when confronted with ethical dilemmas. These scientists have shown that environment and psychological processes can lead us to engage in ethically questionable behavior even if it violates our own values.
Scholars of decision-making don’t expect people to be fully rational, but they argue that we should aspire to be so in order to better align our behavior with our goals. In the ethics domain we struggle with bounded ethicality—systematic cognitive barriers that prevent us from being as ethical as we wish to be. Today more and more companies eliminate names and pictures from applications in an initial hiring review to reduce biased decision-making and increase the odds of hiring the most-qualified candidates.
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