The awareness of consequences is defined as whether someone is aware of the positive or negative consequences for others when acting or not acting pro-socially to protect the environment.
According to Schwartz, personal (or moral) norms influence behavior when actors are aware that certain actions have consequences on others' wellbeing (called awareness of consequences), accepting the responsibility of those actions (awareness of responsibility).
More significantly, in the set of tests that psychologists have dreamt up to quantify moral health, their performances clearly bespoke an ignorance of the conceptual foundations of morality.Some of these tests, such as an "awareness of consequences" test, measure spontaneous thinking in social situations, such as accidentally receiving too much money in a business transaction.
I have no doubt the NYT did so with permission of the parents, but the child will live with this the rest of her life, and it should be her decision, made in the fullness of time and the awareness of consequences, to make herself a public personage, not that of parents, a reporter, or newspaper editors.
But even as he grew increasingly concerned about unemployment, and pressed for stronger action, friends and colleagues say Chairman Bernanke found himself constrained in ways that Professor Bernanke did not anticipate, and that his academic critics still don't seem to appreciate: by political realities, internal opposition and a heightened awareness of consequences.
More precisely, we assume that pro-social behavior is predicted by five types of determinants: social dilemma, trust in other people, social/personal norms, awareness of consequences and awareness of responsibility.
In this paper, we explore the utility of a commonly used psychometric scale, the awareness of consequences (AC) scale, in order to better understand stated choices.
Put differently, relationships between personal norms and cooperative behavior is moderated by the awareness of consequences (AC) and by the awareness of responsibilities (AR) of such actions on other people.
A principal component analysis was performed on NAM variables, allowing identification of five psychological constructs namely: social dilemma, awareness of responsibility, personal norms, trust in other people's cooperation and awareness of consequences.
Finally, both farmers' moral obligation to specific pro-social engagement, or personal norms, and farmer's consciousness of the positive consequences of their pro-social behavior (awareness of consequences) seem to affect positively their willingness to participate in collective action.
