Bandura on Selective Moral Disengagement

How we cope with, and rationalise inflicting physical and emotional pain and discomfort on others

I deliver lectures on ethics to business, social science and psychology students at undergrad and post-grad levels. It is a topic that perhaps I did not afford too much time when I was studying myself, but since I was introduced to the work of people like Erich Fromm, the Freudian psychoanalyst, and Albert Bandura, Ethics began to take hold of my intere…