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Selective Exercise of Moral Agency

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Nurturing Morality

Part of the book series: Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives ((IICL,volume 5))

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In a recent book titled Everybody Does It!, Gabor (1995) documents the pervasiveness of disengagement of moral self-sanctions from harmful conduct by people of all statuses in all walks of life. A full understanding of human morality must explain not only how people come to behave morally but also how they selectively disengage moral self-sanctions in the transactions of their everyday lives.

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Bandura, A. (2004). Selective Exercise of Moral Agency. In: Thorkildsen, T.A., Walberg, H.J. (eds) Nurturing Morality. Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4163-6_3

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