Bocchiaro

Question 1

What is a whistleblower?

Answer 1

Someone who informs on a person or organisation regarded as engaging in unlawful or immoral activity.

Question 2

What did the study provide? 

Answer 2

The opportunity to obey disobey or whistleblower against an interest in immoral authority

Question 3

What was the sample?

Answer 3

149 participants were used from VCU University in Amsterdam 

Question 4

What sampling technique was used

Answer 4

Self-selecting sampling

Question 5

What study did the researchers tell the participants about?

Answer 5

Previous study in Rome, on the effects of sensory deprivation. The participants were told the study had caused distress and damage to the original participants, but they wanted to replicate the study. 

Question 6

Method

Answer 6

Participants were asked to write a letter to their friends, encouraging them to take part. Participants can respond by obediently. This was by obeying the request disobediently by refusing to do it or whistleblowing by taking the opportunity to write an anonymous letter to the ethics committee.

Question 7

Results

Answer 7

Only 9.4% blew the whistle and 76. 5% obeyed.

Question 8

Conclusion

Answer 8

People find it difficult to resist the power of an authority figure, and people behave much more immediately than they think they well

Question 9

Conclusion regarding personality

Answer 9

There was no statistically difference between the three groups in terms of their six personality traits, measured by a hexaco PIR test that thought it was a concluded that individual factors did not affect whistleblowing