Title: Moral disengagement - Wikipedia
Headings: Moral disengagement
Moral disengagement
Contents
Mechanisms
Moral justification
Euphemistic labelling
Advantageous comparison
Displacement of responsibility
Diffusion of responsibility
Disregarding or misrepresenting injurious consequences
Dehumanization
Antecedents
Individual differences
Interplay of personal and social sanctions
Consequences
Unethical decision making and deceptive behavior
Military conduct
Aggression
Moral disengagement in routinely performed self-serving activities
See also
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Content: Three major sub-functions are operating in this self-regulatory system in which moral agency is grounded. The first sub-function is self-monitoring of one's conduct, which is the initial step of taking control over it. " Action gives rise to self-reactions through a judgmental function in which conduct is evaluated against internal standards and situational circumstances". Thus, moral judgments evoke self-reactive influence. The self-reactive and judgmental mechanisms constitute the second and third sub-function. Generally, moral standards are adopted to serve as guides for good behavior and as deterrents for bad conduct. Once internalized control has developed, people regulate their actions by the standards they apply to themselves and this give them self-satisfaction and a sense of self-worth. Individuals refrain from behaving in ways that violate their moral standards in order to avoid self-condemnation. Therefore, self-sanctions play a significant role in keeping conduct in line with these internal moral standards and hence also in regulating inhumane conduct. However, moral standards only function as fixed internal regulators of conduct when self-regulatory mechanisms have been activated.