Moral Disengagement Research Paper

Moral disengagement is a negative behavior towards others that causes physical, mental and or emotional attacks. People who have moral disengagement justify their actions unconsciously as a kind of self-defense to avoid common blaming for the pursuing of their immoral behavior.

I think whether or not it is moral disengagement, it depends on aspects from each person’s view because one side would say it stands to reason in doing justifiable behavior for achieving their goal, other side would say that is immoral behavior. That is why moral disengagement has both positive and negative sides, it depends which viewpoint you are looking at it from.

According to Stanford psychologist Albert Bandura, he identified eight mechanisms about moral disengagement. I chose four of eight mechanisms; diffusion of responsibility, euphemistic labeling, advantageous comparison, and moral justification. First of all, diffusion of responsibility is like an autosuggestion that I am not the only one, everyone does it. For example, if the opposite lane is free when I am in a traffic jam on my way to wherever, I am concerned about whether I should cross the yellow line illegally or not. At that time, some cars are in front of me may have already made a U-turn and begin heading into the oncoming traffic lanes or go another way. At …show more content…
In my opinion, advantageous comparison is slightly the same concept of the door in the face technique on the aspects of comparison. A guy attempts to convince B guy by making a large request that will be rejected by B guy, then B guy does turn it down. After that, A suggest a lesser request than a larger one, B would likely to agree to the second request because it is more reasonable of a request compared to the original request. At last, A guy achieves his goal with minimizing his object, compared to other big one that he suggested