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ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2026

Motive Attributions Shape Judgments of Whistleblowers' Moral Characters.

Franziska Brotzeller, Gijs van Houwelingen, Mario Gollwitzer, Moritz Fischer

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Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Franziska BrotzellerLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.ORCID 0009-0002-3069-1503
Gijs van HouwelingenUniversiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mario GollwitzerLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4310-4793
Moritz FischerLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Public perceptions of whistleblowers are polarized: While some praise them as heroes, others view them as traitors. We argue that such perceptions are rooted in motives attributed to whistleblowers and tested this idea in three studies. A first qualitative study (

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CharacterJudgmentMoralsMotivationSocial PerceptionWhistleblowingAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultmoral charactermotive attributionorganizational wrongdoingwhistleblowing

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PMCPMC13310289

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