Defensive moral disengagement after in-group wrongdoing is not universal or deterministic

Evidence

Although our experiments deliver mostly bad news, a silver lining still exists, for not everyone reacts in the same defensive manner exemplified by the use of moral disengagement strategies. And as discussed earlier, our morality shifting model is not deterministic when it comes to the influence of behavior. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2151

Categorization

• QUESTION: What individual differences or contexts systematically predict who resists in-group-defensive moral disengagement?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2151
• XREF: connects to: Group immersion and ideological training erode individual moral decision making in perpetrators. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 136; Moral disengagement strategies only mediate glorification’s effect for ingroup-perpetrated violence — Bernhard Leidner et al., Ingroup Glorification, Moral…, 123