This isn’t exactly right, but that behavior is often one of the facets of mobbing. Here’s an article about academic mobbing that I’ve thought about many times since I left academia (tho of course this shit happens outside academia, too) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Academic mobbing is a non-violent, sophisticated, ‘ganging up’ behaviour adopted by academicians to “wear and tear” a colleague down emotionally through unjustified accusation, humiliation, ge...
