Wrongdoers can actively damage accusers while believing their own innocence

Evidence

Lance Armstrong granted Oprah Winfrey a lengthy televised interview that addressed his sophisticated doping operation (Armstrong & Winfrey, 2012). These interviews shed some light on how a phenomenal athlete can cheat in an elaborate scheme to win seven prestigious titles; elude antidop-ing officials and enforcers; proclaim his innocence in many mass media appearances; disparage his teammates as liars, knowing that they were telling the truth about the doping operation; win a lawsuit against O’Reilly, knowing that her allegations were true; betray his highly regarded cancer foundation; and still evidently feel good about himself. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 238

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 238