Selective Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral Agency

By A. Bandura. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Objectifying Sarah Palin: Evidence that objectification causes women to be perceived as less competent and less fully human (2009, background): “Research documenting that stripping people of their humanity plays a role in legitimizing aggression (e.g., Bandura, 2002; Bar-Tal, 2000) further suggests that objectification may have consequences for women beyond those we have discussed.”
Exploring the roots of dehumanization: The role of animal—human similarity in promoting immigrant humanization (2010, background): “1 Such representations presumably justify the exclusion of outgroups from moral consideration, facilitating inhumane acts of discrimination such as genocide and/or slavery (Bandura, 2002; Bar-Tal, 2000; Opotow, 1990; Schwartz & Sturch, 1989).”
Interpersonal control, dehumanization, and violence: A self-determination theory perspective (2010, background): “…for humans to inflict greater harm on others by virtue of allowing them to exclude a group or individual from moral consideration, also known as moral disengagement (Bandura, 2002; Bandura, Barbaranelli, Caprara, & Pastorelli, 1996; Bandura, Underwood, & Fromson, 1975; Kelman, 1976; Opotow, 1990).”
How Violent Video Games Communicate Violence: A Literature Review and Content Analysis of Moral Disengagement Factors (2014, background): “Bandura et al. (1996) identified eight different moral disengagement factors or cues that, if present in a situation, may effectively influence the way in which individuals frame their violent acts.”
Bystanders to bullying: fourth- to seventh-grade students’ perspectives on their reactions (2014, background): “The current study adds valuable knowledge to the literature of bystander/defender behaviour by demonstrating that the bystander actions in bullying situations cannot be sufficiently explained in terms of moral agency vs. moral disengagement (cf. Bandura 1999, 2002).”
Automation and Accountability in Decision Support System Interface Design (2006, background): “cept of moral buffering is related to but not the same as Bandura’s (2002) idea of moral disengagement in which people disengage in moral self-censure in order to engage in reprehensible conduct.”
Understanding online child pornography use: Applying sexual offense theory to internet offenders (2009, background): “In essence, moral disengagement posits that moral standards are not fixed internal regulators of conduct and that moral conduct is selfregulatory (Bandura, 2002).”
Leader Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior and Employee Unethical Conduct: Social Learning of Moral Disengagement as a Behavioral Principle (2020, background): “All these moral disengagement mechanisms—often regarded as a single, overarching concept—reflect various explanations that people use to legitimize their unethical behavior and become insulated from self-sanctions (Bandura, 1999, 2002; Moore et al., 2012).”
An Exploration of the Viability and Usefulness of the Construct of Moral Injury in War Veterans (2011, background): “However, research has identified several ways in which individuals morally disengage and act selectively at times in ways inconsistent with their moral code (e.g., Bandura, 1999, 2002).”
Assessing civic moral disengagement: Dimensionality and construct validity (2009, background): “In reality, moral self-sanctions can be disengaged from violations by mechanisms of moral disengagement operating at four major loci in the self-regulatory system (Bandura, 2002).”
Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “We do not have the space to be exhaustive, but we will address several areas that overlap significantly with behavioral ethics work, and that potentially can contribute significantly to behavioral ethics research in the future.”
Moral Disengagement: A Framework for Understanding Bullying Among Adolescents (2005, methodology): “Bandura (1999; 2002) describes four major categories of psychological mechanisms by which ‘good people do bad things’, including the cognitive restructuring of harmful behavior, obscuring or minimizing one’s role in causing harm, disregarding or distorting the impact of harmful behavior, and blamin”
Moral Disengagement in Processes of Organizational Corruption (2008, background): “Bandura described moral disengagement as explicitly interactive, and describes it as an outcome of the interplay between personal and social influences (Bandura, 2002).”
Dehumanization: An Integrative Review (2006, methodology): “Bandura (2002) complements Kelman and Opotow's work with an individual level account of the cognitive and affective mechanisms involved in moral agency.”
Moral Disengagement Among Bystanders to School Bullying (2011, background): “Moral disengagement refers to the use of legitimization practices conducive to a selective disengagement of moral censure through which otherwise morally concerned people can commit horrible actions against others without experiencing negative self-evaluation and guilt (see Bandura, 1999 , 2002 ).”