Even when one mechanism of moral disengagement is blocked, others still operate
Evidence
Cardinal Mahony’s direct involvement in the deception precluded the oft-used downward displacement of responsibility by claiming he wasn’t informed about what was going on. However, the cover-up methods that were used did involve extensive displacement and diffusion of responsibility. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 523
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- DEFINE: Illustrates how displacement and diffusion of responsibility substitute when direct denial of knowledge fails.
Related
- Even a directly involved wrongdoer recruits displacement and diffusion of responsibility. (similarity 0.93)
- Moral disengagement techniques can be explicitly unmasked and reversed (similarity 0.79)
- Collective moral disengagement arises from members mutually exonerating each role in a shared system (similarity 0.79)
- Diffuse responsibility across many players enables almost limitless blame-shifting. (similarity 0.79)
- Diffuse responsibility systems let culpable people genuinely believe they are innocent (similarity 0.79)
- Moral-disengagement literacy plus locus-tailored strategies can curb self-exonerative practices (similarity 0.78)
- People routinely use psychosocial means to circumvent their moral principles (similarity 0.78)