Moral Credentialing and the Rationalization of Misconduct

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Ethics & behavior

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/10508422.2011.537566PMID 21503267PMCID PMC3077566
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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