Group moral disengagement exceeds the sum of individual members’ mind-sets

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In collective moral disengagement, classmates influence one another such that their group moral disengagement is usually greater than the sum of their individual mind-sets. Hence, the level of classroom moral disengagement accounts for the amount of bullying in schools over and above the predictiveness of individual moral disengagement (Gini, Pozzoli, & Bussey, 2013). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 280 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moral disengagement mechanisms enable justification of in-group harm. — Sonia Roccas and Yechiel Klar and Ido Liviatan, The Paradox of Group-Based Guilt: Modes…, 47; People excuse immorality from in-group members arbitrarily defined — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 102; Group immersion and ideological training erode individual moral decision making in perpetrators. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 136 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective moral disengagement is an emergent group property, not a sum of individuals #corroborates (0.98) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 686
• Group-level moral disengagement is an emergent property, not a sum of individual exonerations #corroborates (0.97)
• Classroom-level moral disengagement exceeds the sum of individual member disengagement. #exemplifies (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 280