CentralReach "ABA On Call" Season 7 Ep 11: Morality, Ethics, and Well-Being: A Scientific Look at What Counts as "Right"

This episode explores the often-confused concepts of morality and ethics and examines how each guides human action both in daily life and in professional practice. Morality reflects the norms and values individuals and cultures use to judge right and wrong, while ethics serves as a formal system for evaluating and regulating behavior within professions. Building on this distinction, the episode introduces a scientific perspective on moral truths: the idea that morality can be grounded in facts about what increases or decreases the well-being of conscious creatures. Finally, the hosts apply these ideas to behavior analysis, discussing how moral considerations, empirical outcomes, and ethical codes intersect in real practice. Using examples ranging from family interactions to clinical decision-making, the hosts illustrate how a data-driven understanding of well-being can shape more humane, effective, and responsible behavior-analytic work.

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Show Notes:

https://www.samharris.org/books/the-moral-landscape

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3739395-when-slow-is-fast-enough