Organizational settings enable humans to adapt to moral wrongdoing at psychic cost

Evidence

What Lifton is suggesting is that human beings have the capacity to adapt to moral wrongdoing taking place within organizational settings and, although at some psychic cost, to blank out the implications of those actions and function as a cog within the terrible machine. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3913

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutional evil requires a social psychology of how settings override members’ moral scruples — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 4030