Behavior is regulated by fear of penalties, social censure, or self-censure

Evidence

Regulation of transgressive behavior by outcome expectations operates through three types of sanctions: legal, social, and self-evaluative. These regulatory sanctions are based on anticipation of consequences. In the legal form, people refrain from behaving transgressively for fear that they will get caught and suffer legal penalties. In the social form, people refrain from transgressive behavior for fear of social censure and other aversive social consequences. In self-regulation based on self-sanctions, self-censure deters people from behaving transgressively. Legal and social systems of control, which are rooted in external sanctions, are called fear controls. The control rooted in self-sanctions is called guilt control. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 68

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the distinction between fear controls (external legal and social sanctions) and guilt control (internal self-sanctions), which anchors Bandura’s entire subsequent argument.
• XREF: The fear-control vs guilt-control distinction matters for whether authoritarian personality types deter harmful policy support through external sanctions alone.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 68