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Dita Šamánková, Marek Preiss and Tereza Příhodová
The Contextual Character of Moral Integrity
Dita Šamánková · Marek Preiss Tereza Příhodová
The Contextual Character of Moral Integrity Transcultural Psychological Applications
Dita Šamánková The National Institute of Mental Health Klecany, Czech Republic
Tereza Příhodová The National Institute of Mental Health Klecany, Czech Republic
Marek Preiss The National Institute of Mental Health Klecany, Czech Republic
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This study is a result of the research funded by the Czech Science Foundation; grant No. 16-06264S (“Integrity, moral disengagement and other relevant constructs”).
Preface
When my old friend Marek, a professor of psychology in Prague, invited me to participate in his and his Ph.D. student Tereza’s research projects concerning moral integrity, my first question was: “Why? Why do you deal with that at all?” Moral integrity testing has got virtually no tradition in my homeland, Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia): unlike the Anglophone world, especially the United States, we, ‘Eastern Europeans’, have not become obsessed with what appears to be a favourite Anglo-Saxon pastime, that is, ‘ticking the boxes’ in every possible area of life … What do we do ‘in the East’ instead? Well. First of all, the inverted commas gently insinuate that you cannot offend us more b
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