Sustained moral disengagement predicts later violence while its renunciation predicts restraint

Evidence

Adolescents who repudiated moral-disengagement practices when younger and continued to do so into early adulthood refrained from harmful behavior. … By contrast, those who began as high moral disengagers and continued to suspend self-sanctions for wrongdoing experienced little guilt about it and were prone to aggressive and violent conduct. Their counterparts, who began as moral disengagers but later renounced such practices, were less inclined to behave aggressively as young adults. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 274

Categorization

• XREF: Shows disengagement is alterable — renunciation of disengagement practices changes behavior — which matters for the vault’s intervention-relevant angle on authoritarianism. — connects to: Work failure, social rejection, and abuse predict resorting to political violence — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 160
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 274