PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Psy

• School: Eastern Oregon University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 453
• Professor: Dr. Charles Lyons

Document Summary

1: bandura"s theory of moral disconnection states that the human being uses different cognitive mechanisms to justify his behavior when it is against his moral and ethical principles. Reality is positively reinterpreted in such a way that the immoral act actually becomes laudable in the eyes of its perpetrator . It is one of the mechanisms that would be in the domain of the locus of conduct, and its presence in the military field and in terrorism is common. In other words, putting neutral names on immoral actions. It is also part of the locus of conduct: displacement of responsibility, a mechanism widely used today, is to attribute all or a large part of the responsibility for the acts themselves to other people or situations . 2 certain position of superiority with respect to the subject. Chance, time and place or another subject can serve as an element to which to shift responsibility for the acts.