Willful ignorance of one’s effects is engineered by institutional reassurance

Evidence

Writers and producers are disconnected from the psychosocial effects of the programs they create. Disconnectedness precludes reality testing. Most of them report that they are unaware of existing research findings, they are not especially eager to see them, they doubt the effects can ever be convincingly demonstrated, and network social scientists reassure them that there is no reason for concern. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 872

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 872
• XREF: connects to: Government can reduce ecological cause-effect ignorance to steer consumer choices. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1010; Honest climate response requires admitting fear rather than false reassurance — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1368