We introduce a new model of bounded ethicality which helps explain three persistent puzzles of ethical behavior: when moral awareness is or is not present, when ethical behavior is more or less consistent with past behavior, and when blind spots obscure our ethical failures. The original conception of bounded ethicality (Chugh, Banaji, & Bazerman, 2005) described the systematic psychological constraints on ethical behavior and has contributed to our field's understanding of the phenomena of everyday, “ordinary” unethical behavior. In this more detailed model, we delineate these systematic processes and mechanisms and show how concepts of automaticity, self-view, and self-threat play critical roles in our ethical decision-making. The model describes distinct, asymmetric patterns of (un)ethical behavior and pinpoints the contingency which determines which pattern is more likely to unfold, including when we will trend to more or less automaticity and more or less ethical behavior. Our model integrates and synthesizes many of the key models and findings in recent behavioral ethics research into a single, overarching model of ethical decision-making, offering an anchor for new questions and a new realm of study.

我们引入一种新的有限道德模型，该模型有助于解释道德行为的三个持久难题：何时存在或不存在道德意识，何时道德行为与过去的行为或多或少一致，以及盲点掩盖了我们的道德失败。有限道德的原始概念（Chugh，Banaji和Bazerman，2005年）描述了对道德行为的系统性心理约束，并有助于我们领域对日常“普通”不道德行为现象的理解。在这个更详细的模型中，我们描述了这些系统的过程和机制，并显示了自动化，自我观察和自我威胁的概念如何在我们的道德决策中发挥关键作用。该模型描述了不同的 （非）道德行为的不对称模式，并指出了偶然性，这种偶然性决定了哪种模式更可能展现出来，包括何时我们趋向于或多或少的自动化和或多或少的道德行为。我们的模型将最近的行为伦理学研究中的许多关键模型和发现整合并综合为一个单一的，总体的伦理决策模型，为新问题和新研究领域提供了基础。