But a new study by Brian Gunia, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, shows that such misconduct, or "deviance," can prove beneficial by causing "non-deviant" members of ...

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Misconduct within an organization is generally seen as a predicament at best, a catastrophe at worst. But a new study shows that such misconduct, or “deviance,” can prove beneficial by causing ...

We usually think of workplace deviance as linked to "bad apples"—the troublemakers who egregiously slack off, steal from the ...

I recently attended a talk by Charlie Precourt, a 2012 inductee of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, and a pilot on four space shuttle flights. The topic was “Normalcy of Deviance”, a phrase he ...

OVER the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring informal social deviance, the everyday behaviors that may not be illegal but still disrupt social harmony. We’ve all encountered them, the person blasting ...

The risk of marijuana use among deviance-prone males goes up or down with national trends. But deviance prone girls are just as likely to use marijuana during years of high and low national use. When ...