An employee in charge of collecting tickets at the entrance of a movie theater lets her friends enter the theater without paying for tickets. She thinks it is fine to do so because the employees at the popcorn bar give free popcorn to their friends. This type of rationalization is categorized as:

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This behavior is rationalized through the "everyone else is doing it" justification, where the employee sees others (like those at the popcorn bar) bending rules for friends and feels justified to do the same, suggesting a normalization of such actions among peers.

An Employee in Charge of Collecting Tickets at the Entrance