A grotesque and dark beauty: How moral identity and mechanisms of moral disengagement influence cognitive and emotional reactions to war

By Karl Aquino, Americus Reed, Stefan Thau, Dan Freeman. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: How Moral Decoupling Enables Consumers to Admire and Admonish (2013, background): “1996), the perpetration of inhumanities (Bandura 1999), and support for military forces (Aquino et al. 2007; McAlister, Bandura, and Owen 2006).”
The impact of moral identity on consumers’ green consumption tendency: The role of perceived responsibility for environmental damage (2018, background): “As a result, having moral identity decreases individuals' tendency to use moral rationalization strategies to reduce their responsibility for unethical behavior (Chowdhury & Fernando, 2014), or to use moral rationalization strategies to justify wars (Aquino et al., 2007).”
Moral Disengagement in Processes of Organizational Corruption (2008, background): “…1996; Bandura et al., 2001), though it has also been effectively applied to adults in targeted ways, studying the relationship between moral disengage- ment and the decline in civic behavior (Caprara and Capanna, 2006), computer hacking (Rogers, 2001), and reactions to war (Aquino et al., 2007).”
Testing a social-cognitive model of moral behavior: the interactive influence of situations and moral identity centrality. (2009, result): “Research also supports the predictive validity of the Internalization measure (cf. Aquino et al., 2007; Reed et al., 2007; Reynolds & Ceranic, 2007).”
Moral disengagement in ethical decision making: a study of antecedents and outcomes. (2008, background): “As a result, Aquino and colleagues (Aquino et al., 2007) proposed that such individuals are more likely to be concerned about the suffering of others, including out-group members.”
A social-cognitive approach to understanding gender differences in negotiator ethics: The role of moral identity (2017, background): “Given that holding a stronger moral identity prevents moral disengagement (Aquino et al., 2007; Detert et al., 2008; McFerran et al., 2010), we turned to whether women negotiator’s stronger moral identities can explain why women morally disengage less and behave less unethically than men when they n”
Does Moral Identity Effectively Predict Moral Behavior?: A Meta-Analysis (2016, background): “This approach is well underway in studies that investigate the moderating and mediating role of moral identity as a predictor of moral action (e.g., Aquino et al., 2007; Hardy et al., 2015).”