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
By The Numbers
By The Numbers
Big Excuses

Content: What is Moral Disengagement? | Salud America
April 16, 2019
What is Moral Disengagement? by Stacy Cantu-Pawlik
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Want to know how people rationalize bad decisions? It’s called moral disengagement. Moral disengagement is the process by which an individual convinces him/herself that ethical standards do not apply to him/herself within a particular situation or context, according to world renowned social psychologist Albert Bandura. Moral disengagement can be broken down into four categories: 1. Moral Justification
Moral justification, reconstructs immoral conduct as serving the greater good. Example: Research shows that many policy officers, when forced to choose between lying under oath (perjury) and testifying against their colleagues, prefer the first option and justify the act as loyalty to their peers.