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HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
Stress, bias, fear, identity, and cognitive shortcuts can shape judgment long before a person recognizes the influence.
LEARN MORE →Ancient wisdom. Modern psychology. Deeper ethics. A powerful exploration of what turns good people toward bad choices—and how we prevent it.
Three forces at the center of ethical decision-making under pressure.
Stress, bias, fear, identity, and cognitive shortcuts can shape judgment long before a person recognizes the influence.
LEARN MORE →Rationalization and small compromises can move the ethical line a little at a time—until the distance becomes hard to see.
LEARN MORE →Extraordinary authority changes the stakes. Culture, peers, leadership, and systems can either strengthen or erode restraint.
LEARN MORE →Fall of Duty brings history, psychology, and ethics together to examine why good people can make bad choices—and what can be done before the line is crossed.
Adam Tippetts draws on nearly twenty years in law enforcement to examine ethics not as a slogan, but as a discipline—one tested under stress, authority, loyalty, fear, and consequence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR →“WE GIVE EXTRAORDINARY AUTHORITY TO ORDINARY PEOPLE.”