Bernhard Leidner et al. — Ingroup Glorification, Moral Disengagement, and Justice in the Context of Collective Violence

19 published claims from this book.

• Emotional minimization and explicit dehumanization mediate glorification’s effect on justice
• Glorification may be reducible through political rhetoric without harming core group attachment.
• Glorification overlaps with but is not reducible to RWA or SDO.
• Glorification uniquely predicts reduced justice judgments toward outgroup victims in British participants.
• Glorification uniquely suppresses justice demands when the perpetrator is one’s own group
• Group glorification increases emotional minimization of outgroup victims’ suffering.
• Group glorification suppresses demands for justice for ingroup violence
• Group glorification suppresses justice via moral disengagement whereas attachment does not
• High glorifiers minimize and deflect their own group’s atrocities.
• Ingroup glorification uniquely predicts resistance to justice for outgroup victims, via moral disengagement.
• Ingroup glorification, not attachment, triggers moral disengagement and reduced justice demands.
• Minimizing victims’ emotional depth is a more radical moral disengagement strategy than empathy failure.
• Moral disengagement mediates glorification’s suppression of justice demands
• Moral disengagement strategies only mediate glorification’s effect for ingroup-perpetrated violence
• National attachment reduces rather than increases moral disengagement once glorification is controlled.
• National glorification but not attachment blocks critical evaluation of ingroup wrongdoing.
• Official injustice compounds wrongdoing when judges dehumanize victims as primitive.
• SDO overlaps with glorification’s superiority facet but lacks its loyalty component
• The glorification-justice link only operates when one’s own group is the perpetrator.