Moral disengagement techniques can be explicitly unmasked and reversed

Evidence

Morality can also be fostered by restoring humanity to harmful conduct that has been freed from the restraints of moral self-sanctions. McAlister and his colleagues fostered moral reengagement as an alternative to resorting to violent means. They did so by peer modeling of prosocial solutions to conflicts and exposure to communications that unmasked the various self-exonerative methods of moral disengagement (McAlister, Ama, Barroso, Peters, & Kelder, 2000). Moral engagement reduced support of violent means, whereas boosting self-exonerative vindications raised endorsement of violent means. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 651

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Moral engagement can be deliberately fostered to reduce violent means endorsement (similarity 0.94)
• Moral-disengagement literacy plus locus-tailored strategies can curb self-exonerative practices (similarity 0.86)
• Moral disengagement re-perceives immoral acts while morality shifting reframes them as moral (similarity 0.83)
• Disengaging self-sanctions requires contesting evidence of harm rather than denying the act (similarity 0.83)
• People retain their moral standards while selectively suspending them for harm. (similarity 0.83)
• Moral self-censure strength depends on how perpetrators regard their victims. (similarity 0.82)
• Moral disengagement is how individuals neutralize threats to the moral self (similarity 0.81)
• Moral disengagement reinterprets facts while morality shifting redefines the moral frame itself (similarity 0.81)
• Explaining cruelty’s mechanisms does not excuse it (similarity 0.81)
• Keeping harm out of sight enables genuine belief in one’s innocence (similarity 0.81)
• Criminals must preserve self-respect by sanitizing and deflecting blame for misconduct. (similarity 0.81)
• The same moral disengagement mechanism takes different forms in different activity domains. (similarity 0.80)
• Collective moral disengagement arises from members mutually exonerating each role in a shared system (similarity 0.80)
• Moral disengagement causally drives delinquency through disinhibitory processes rather than my being its byproduct (similarity 0.80)
• Countermeasures must target the specific locus where moral disengagement occurs (similarity 0.80)