Abstract Whistleblowers are a vital means of protecting society because they provide information about serious wrongdoing. And yet, people who speak up can suffer. Even so, debates on whistleblowing focus compelling employees to come forward, often overlooking the risk involved. Theoretical understanding whistleblowers’ post-disclosure experience is weak tangible and material impacts poorly und...

When something is wrong, someone is harmed. This hypothesis derives from the theory of dyadic morality, which suggests a moral cognitive template of wrongdoing agent and suffering patient (i.e., victim). This dyadic template means that victimless wrongs (e.g., masturbation) are psychologically incomplete, compelling the mind to perceive victims even when they are objectively absent. Five studie...

1 The disproportionate use of police powers against black and minority ethnic populations is one of the major fault-lines in police-community relations in Britain and the USA. While various forms of regulation have been attempted the broad thrust of the approach has been rather different in the two jurisdictions. In the US regulation leans towards a conflict model where litigation is common and...

There has been little empirical research into misconduct and misbehavior among community research workers who recruit and collect data in vulnerable and marginalized health populations and are also members of those same communities. We conducted qualitative interviews with community research workers and traditional research assistants to understand the context and consequences of misbehaviors t...

Many philosophical problems are rooted in everyday thought, and experimental philosophy uses social scientific techniques to study the psychological underpinnings of such problems. In the case of free will, research suggests that people in a diverse range of cultures reject determinism, but people give conflicting responses on whether determinism would undermine moral responsibility. When prese...