The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff

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The psychology of whistleblowing (2015, background): “The whistleblower’s dilemma: the fairnessloyalty tradeoff The ethical ambiguity surrounding whistleblowing, and the negative outcomes that whistleblowers often face raises the question: What leads people to blow the whistle in the first place? Research we conducted sheds some initial light on this q”
Moralized Leadership: The Construction and Consequences of Ethical Leader Perceptions (2015, background): “For example, Waytz, Dungan, and Young (2013) found that whistle-blowing is consistent with the fairness/cheating moral foundation but that deciding not to blow the whistle is consistent with the loyalty/betrayal moral foundation.”
Blind loyalty? When group loyalty makes us see evil or engage in it (2016, result): “In contrast to the finding of Waytz et al. (2013) that the hypothetical tradeoff between loyalty and fairness leads to greater unethical behavior, this study revealed that when such ethical tradeoffs are not salient, then loyalty to an actual group promotes ethical behavior.”