Our research team keeps citing studies that we know have serious methodological problems because they support our hypothesis and our funding depends on positive results. We joke about 'massaging the data' but we're crossing lines that none of us would have crossed individually, and I don't know how we got here.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group's shared investment in an outcome gradually erodes their individual ethical standards through collective rationalization.
“Where Are You with Moral courage in everyday life?”
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