“…Moral disengagement (Bandura, ) has been found to help members of a perpetrator group cope with their group's misdeeds by legitimizing the act (Coman, Stone, Castano, & Hirst, ), denying their group's responsibility (Bilali, ), assigning blame to or dehumanizing the victimized group (Castano & Giner‐Sorolla, ), using euphemistic labeling (Gavriely‐Nuri, ), or minimizing negative consequences (Leidner, Castano, Zaiser, & Giner‐Sorolla, ). Other mechanisms include motivated “forgetting” (Rotella & Richeson, ) and social silencing of wrongdoing (Nets‐Zehngut, Pliskin, & Bar‐Tal, ). These mechanisms help group members to maintain collective positive self‐image and reduce unpleasant moral emotions (Lickel, Steele, & Schmader, ; Sullivan, Landau, Branscombe, & Rothschild, ; Wohl & Branscombe, ).…”