The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined ...

The normalization of deviance was discussed often at the Spring to Proficiency 2024 IFR Clinic put on by Community Aviation at the EAA Pilot Proficiency Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

This process is called the “normalization of deviance,” and it was defined in Diane Vaughan’s book The Challenger Launch Decision as, “The gradual process through which unacceptable ...

Here’s what Facebook’s normalization of deviance has looked like in the first few months of 2021: In February, internal company e-mails obtained by ProPublica revealed that, in 2018, the ...

Normalization of deviance is a phenomenon by which individuals, groups or organizations come to accept a lower standard of performance until that lower standard becomes the "norm" for them.

Patient assessment also suffers incredibly from normalization of deviance, particularly in the form of EMS practitioners who perform the “hands in the pocket” assessment.

The Normalization of Deviance: What It Is and How It Affects Morale The term “normalization of deviance” was first coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan in her study of the 1986 Challenger Space ...

The Normalization of Deviance. Nancy Guan. Savannah Morning News. Courtrooms, 1977. This page is a digital companion to the Tripwire podcast, episode 5.

As I said earlier, the worst engineering disasters were caused by this. My company experienced a tragedy that killed 17 people due to this “normalization of deviance“ problem.