Title: What is Moral Disengagement? | Salud America
Headings: What is Moral Disengagement?
What is Moral Disengagement?
1. Moral Justification
2. Diffusing Responsibility
3. Mis-presenting Injurious Consequences
4. Dehumanizing the Victim
Racism and Moral Disengagement
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Content: Diffusing Responsibility
With diffusing responsibility, individuals deflect responsibility for a wrongdoing by attributing it to authority figures that dictate that they should engage in unethical behavior
Example: “ My boss told me to do it.” 3. Mis-presenting Injurious Consequences
With minimizing consequences, self-censure is disengaged due to misrepresentation of the outcomes of one’s unruly behavior. They are distorted or ignored in a way that misconduct seems harmless. Example: “ It’s no big deal.” 4. Dehumanizing the Victim
This strategy aims to reduce identification with the target of the harmful acts. In attribution of blame, victims are blamed to have brought the harm on themselves.