Moral disengagement is the psychological process that allows people to act against their moral standards without feeling distress or guilt. Albert Bandura identified several mechanisms by which this occurs, often used to justify harmful actions or unethical behavior. 1. Moral Justification 2. Euphemistic Labeling 3. Advantageous Comparison 4. Displacement of Responsibility 5. Diffusion of Responsibility 6.… Read More Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement
Below is a clean legal mapping of cruelty → coercive control, using language that aligns with modern abuse law, human-rights framing, and Spanish / European legal concepts.This is the kind of structure professionals use (lawyers, courts, clinicians, expert witnesses). 1. Core legal principle (the shift) Cruelty becomes legally relevant when it functions as CONTROL. Law does not require: Law looks for: This is… Read More Cruelty Coercive Control
An extinction burst occurs when a learned cruel or controlling behaviour no longer produces the expected reward (reaction, submission, compliance). Duration Phase Typical Duration Description Initial Burst Minutes → hours Immediate spike in intensity after boundary is enforced or silence is introduced. Secondary Burst 1–3 days Abuser may try repeated escalation, switching tactics or targets to restore… Read More How Long Extinction Bursts Last
When someone takes the “moral high ground” while their family has a documented history of serious misconduct, such as conviction for theft while in a professional fiduciary role. This is both ethically and psychologically complex, and it’s worth unpacking carefully. 1. Understand the Dynamics Psychological effects of this dynamic: 2. How This Affects Others When someone with this… Read More Moral High Ground
This pattern is so consistent that clinicians, domestic-abuse assessors, and family courts treat it as a major red flagrather than a coincidence. I’ll explain it cleanly and calmly, from both a psychological and neuroscience perspective. The short answer Because speed collapses your ability to evaluate, and distance collapses your ability to escape. Together, they lock control into place. 1. RUSHED MARRIAGE = LEGAL +… Read More 🧠 WHY ABUSERS RUSH MARRIAGE AND RELOCATION
“Once someone is willing to lie under oath, the relationship is already dead.” Here’s why — grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and ethics: Why Lying Under Oath Kills a Relationship Permanently 1. It Destroys the Brain’s Safety Model The human attachment system relies on one core question: “Is this person fundamentally safe and truthful?” Lying under oath… Read More “Once someone is willing to lie under oath, the relationship is already dead.”
1. Bluffing ≠ Confidence in Truth PsychologyPeople who threaten legal action without substance rely on a common bias: Most people associate legal threats with innocence or strength. In reality, habitual bluffers understand that: This is coercive persuasion, not honesty. 2. Years of Practice Rewire Behaviour (Neuroscience) Neuroplasticity means the brain strengthens whatever it repeats. In long-term deceivers:… Read More Bluffing and legal intimidation
Heuristic processing is a way the brain makes quick judgments and decisions using mental shortcuts, rather than slow, detailed analysis. In simple terms:👉 “This feels right based on past experience, so I’ll go with it.” How heuristic processing works Your brain uses rules of thumb to save time and energy. Instead of evaluating all available information, it relies on patterns,… Read More Heuristic processing
Cognitive dissonance occurs when reality clashes with a person’s self-image. Most abusers hold an internal narrative such as: Your calm, factual truth introduces a competing reality without emotion. That’s the key. Anger can be dismissed.Calm facts cannot. Neuroscience shows that when dissonance cannot be resolved externally (through arguing or provoking), the brain attempts to resolve it internally by… Read More Calm truth creates cognitive dissonance they cannot tolerate
“What You See Is Not What Is Happening” Why People Jump to Assumptions — Neuroscience & Psychology 1. The brain is a pattern-completion machine The human brain evolved to make fast judgments, not accurate ones. When people see: the brain automatically fills in the gaps using past social templates: “Couple.” “Affair.” “Relationship.” This is driven by the hippocampus and predictive… Read More Judgement
