Title: Moral disengagement - Wikipedia
Headings: Moral disengagement
Moral disengagement
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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
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Moral disengagement
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Moral disengagement is a term from social psychology for the process of convincing the self that ethical standards do not apply to oneself in a particular context. This is done by separating moral reactions from inhumane conduct and disabling the mechanism of self-condemnation. Thus, moral disengagement involves a process of cognitive re-construing or re-framing of destructive behavior as being morally acceptable without changing the behavior or the moral standards. In social cognitive theory of morality, self-regulatory mechanisms embedded in moral standards and self-sanctions translate moral reasoning into actions, and, as a result, moral agency is exerted. Thus, the moral self is situated in a broader, socio-cognitive self-theory consisting of self-organizing, proactive, self-reflective, and self-regulative mechanisms. 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.