1: Accountability
Explore the strategies people use to cope with social pressures to justify their views or conduct to others. Other Information:
This research explores the wide range of strategies people use to cope with social pressures to justify their views or conduct
to others. Work to date examines such strategies as attitude shifting/ingratiation, pre-emptive self-criticism, defensive
bolstering, decision evasion (buckpassing, procrastination, and obfuscation), protest against "unreasonable" standards, justifications,
excuses, and apologies for disappointing conduct, exploitation of loopholes in performance evaluation systems (cheating),
exercising the exit option, and loyalty. Several studies now shed light on the conditions under which these strategies are
likely to be activated as well as the implications of strategies for judgmental biases (in particular, work on pre-emptive
self-criticism, defensive bolstering, and decision evasion) and for interpersonal harmony and organizational performance.
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