Moral Disengagement
In his sociocognitive theory of moral agency, Bandura (1986, 1999)
describes moral disengagement as the sociocognitive processes through
which normal people can commit horrible actions against other people.
These processes are the cognitive restructuring of inhumane conduct into
a benign or worthy one by moral justification, euphemistic labeling and
advantageous comparison; diffusion or displacement of personal responsibility;
distortion of consequences; and blaming or dehumanization of
victims