Training for heat-of-the-moment thinking: ethics training to prepare for operations/

MESSERVEY Deanna L.

Training for heat-of-the-moment thinking: ethics training to prepare for operations/ Deanna L. Messervey, Jennifer M. Peach, Waylon H. Dean and Elizabeth A. Nelson - 2023

Military ethics training has tended to focus on imparting ethical attitudes and on improving deliberative moral decision-making through classroom instruction. However, military personnel can be exposed to extreme conditions on operations, which can lead to heat-of-the-moment thinking. Under stress, individuals are more likely to engage in automatic processing than deliberative processing, and visceral states such as anger and disgust can increase a person's risk of behaving unethically.


MILITARY
ETHICS
DECISION MAKING