“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional
Jake Phillips
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The moderating role of organizational cynicism in the effect of proactive personality on intrapreneurship. [PDF]
WorkKarasu E, Ünalan D.
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the mechanisms through which institutional corruption and engagement in corruption at the societal level may be normalized to the extent that citizens adopt an instrumental approach to corruption. Such an approach means that the public accepts corrupt practices and sees them as reasonable, as long as they achieve results ...
Shlomo Mizrahi, Shani Bar
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The Relationship Between Psychological Contract Breach and Employees' Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Mediating Effect of Organizational Cynicism and Work Alienation. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 Li S, Chen Y.
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Relationship between teachers` organizational cynicism and organizational commitment
, 2020 The purpose of this research was to determine the teachers' level of organizational cynicism and organizational commitment. This research is a descriptive study in which relational screening model has been used. The sample of this research included 406 (120 teachers in primary schools, 154 teachers in secondary schools, 132 teachers in high ...
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Consistency, not waste aversion, explains apparent sunk‐cost effects in politics
Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2026.Abstract Do sunk costs shape how voters judge political leaders, or do reputational signals carried by current choices dominate? Across three preregistered experiments (total N = 1462) using vignettes about a national rail project, we orthogonally manipulated sunk costs (high vs. absent), leaders' decisions (continue vs. abandon), campaign commitments (
Marco Mattei, John Michael
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Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Background Vicarious trauma (VT), the psychological distress that occurs from exposure to the trauma of others, is prevalent among therapists, but has not previously been explored in those working specifically with survivors of sexual trauma. This qualitative study explores counsellors‘ and psychotherapists‘ experiences of VT when working with
Deborah Down, Alison M. Bacon
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Effects of Organizational Cynicism and Socialization on Nurses' Job Burnout: A Career-Stage-Based Analysis. [PDF]
J Nurs ManagKim HJ, An HJ, Nam SH, Lee J.
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The Detrimental Effect of Machiavellian Leadership on Employees' Emotional Exhaustion: Organizational Cynicism as a Mediator. [PDF]
Eur J Psychol, 2015 Gkorezis P, Petridou E, Krouklidou T.
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