More than a hundred children between the ages of seven and twelve reportedly died in a recent incident in Iran. The details are devastating. The images are worse. And yet, for many of us watching from afar, the reaction lasts only seconds. A pause. A sigh. Maybe a repost. Then we scroll. How does that happen? How do ordinary, decent people end up emotionally detached from the deaths of children? Psychologist Albert Bandura called this process moral disengagement. It answers a disturbing question: how do good people participate in—or at least tolerate—atrocity, without being monsters or sociopaths? Bandura argued that […]... Keep on reading: Scroll, sigh, scroll again: How moral disengagement numbs good people to stop caring