Justifying atrocities: The effect of moral-disengagement strategies on socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1281-1285

  Coman, Alin ^a   Stone, Charles B ^b   Castano, Emanuele ^c   Hirst, William ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^c NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Moral disengagement; Social identity; Socially shared retrieval induced forgetting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MORALS; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84904746272     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614531024     Document Type: Article

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