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Withstanding Moral Disengagement: Attachment Security As An Ethical Intervention, Dolly Chugh, Mary C. Kern, Zhu Zhu, Sujin Lee
Withstanding Moral Disengagement: Attachment Security As An Ethical Intervention, Dolly Chugh, Mary C. Kern, Zhu Zhu, Sujin Lee
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
We propose an ethical intervention leading to improved ethical decision-making. Moral disengagement has long been related to unethical decision-making. We test an ethical intervention in which this relationship is broken. Our ethical intervention consisted of priming individuals to be securely-attached, in which they recalled a past instance of relational support and acceptance. We predicted and found an interaction between attachment state and moral disengagement, in which individuals primed with attachment security were able to withstand moral disengagement. In Study 1, we demonstrate that the securely attached behave more ethically than the anxiously attached in an achievement context. In Study 2, …