The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness-loyalty tradeoff

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1027-1033

  Waytz, Adam ^a   Dungan, James ^b   Young, Liane ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Fairness; Loyalty; Morality; Whistleblowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881232168     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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