Motivated Blindness: Why We Ignore Unethical ActsHow financial incentives hide obvious wrongdoing

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Psychology of Moral Failure

Motivated blindness explains why people unconsciously overlook unethical behavior when it benefits them. Research by Max Bazerman shows how conflicts of interest physically block our ability to see fraud, rather than just choosing to ignore it. This cognitive bias reveals that silence is often a result of faulty perception driven by incentives, not necessarily malicious intent.