Organizations that cover up past harms commit themselves to future wrongdoing

Evidence

How, for instance, could we halt or limit the tendency of organizations to cover up past harms, and in the process inadvertantly commit themselves to perpetrate future ones? Other writers who have contributed to what I have called the social psychological perspective on evil clearly direct us to these questions. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4038

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concealing past harms converts unknowing negligence into deliberate harm. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 4013