Group-level moral disengagement is an emergent property, not a sum of individual exonerations
Evidence
Therefore, collective moral disengagement is not simply the aggregation of the moral exonerations of its individual members operating in isolation. It is an emergent group-level property arising from interactive, coordinative, and synergistic group dynamics (Bandura, 2000). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 686
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
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- Collective moral disengagement is an emergent group property, not a sum of individuals (similarity 0.98)
- Collective moral disengagement arises from members mutually exonerating each role in a shared system (similarity 0.88)
- Classroom-level moral disengagement exceeds the sum of individual member disengagement. (similarity 0.83)
- Group anonymity and emotional arousal override individual moral judgment (similarity 0.82)
- Moral disengagement is how individuals neutralize threats to the moral self (similarity 0.81)
- Defensive moral disengagement after in-group wrongdoing is not universal or deterministic (similarity 0.81)
- Group decision making lets members discount their share of collective harm (similarity 0.81)
- Collective decision-making lets participants minimize personal responsibility for harm. (similarity 0.81)
- Group responsibility itself weakens moral control over harmful acts (similarity 0.81)
- Divine legitimization of group advantage removes accountability for causing harm. (similarity 0.79)
- Moral disengagement strategies only mediate glorification’s effect for ingroup-perpetrated violence (similarity 0.79)
- Moral disengagement is common in ordinary daily life, not just atrocities (similarity 0.79)
- Moral disengagement mechanisms enable justification of in-group harm. (similarity 0.79)
- People can suspend moral standards only for specific harmful activities while keeping them elsewhere. (similarity 0.79)
- Moral-disengagement literacy plus locus-tailored strategies can curb self-exonerative practices (similarity 0.78)