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The 14 pages that link to Moral disengagement, each with the reason it gives.

• AntiheroRelated: Viewers may use similar justifications to keep following an antihero’s wrongdoing.

• Moral educationRelated: It shows why knowing moral standards may not prevent people from excusing harmful actions.

• DehumanizationCompared with: It explains how perpetrators excuse harmful conduct, rather than how targets are represented.

• Moral ambiguityRelated: It distinguishes genuine ethical conflict from rationalizations that conceal wrongdoing.

• Moral motivationRelated: It explains how harmful conduct can proceed despite a person's moral standards.

• ObedienceRelated: People may recast obedience as duty to excuse actions they would otherwise condemn.

• RadicalizationRelated: It can help reconcile support for violence with a positive moral self-image.

• Moral developmentRelated: It shows how moral standards can remain intact while behavior violates them.

• Social cognitive theoryBroader topic: This application explains how self-regulatory processes can be selectively suspended.

• Online radicalizationRelated: Extremist online narratives can recast violence as justified, necessary, or morally permissible.

• PsychopathyRelated: It offers one account of how callous attitudes can coexist with deliberate harmful acts.

• BlameRelated: People may displace or diffuse blame to make their own harmful actions seem acceptable.

• Criminal psychologyRelated: It helps explain how offenders may justify conduct that conflicts with their moral standards.

• HatredRelated: It can loosen restraints against harming a hated target.