This page is a digital companion to the Tripwire podcast, episode 5. The goal is to allow listeners to take in the audio story while viewing images, videos and maps of the places, people and ...

Peter Matthews talks with Battalion Chief Grant Tinker about the normalization of deviance, often mistaken for complacency, and how deeper in the fire service and carries serious consequences. In this ...

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. [Shutterstock] ...

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

Functional public policy cannot be built on political paranoia. Sociologists tell us that when deviance from truth and humanism has slowly been normalized by prolonged ideological sophistry in our ...

Have you ever cut a corner, perhaps not using a checklist, or skipping a preflight, and then caught yourself doing it again? Nothing bad happened the first time, but that was the beginning of the ...

“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 ...