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 ...

When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to ...

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 ...

Some examples of narcissistic behavior include inflating one’s accomplishments to gain praise, ignoring other people’s feelings, and deliberately taking credit for someone else’s work. Narcissistic ...

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