Personality-trait approaches have failed to predict actual whistle-blowing behavior

Evidence

The search in personality traits and organizational characteristics for predictors of whistleblowers has not yielded much reliable information. The frequent focus of research on whistle-blowers’ intentions rather than their actual behavior also limits the generalizability of the research findings (McGinnis & Foege, 1993; Mesmer-Magnus & Viswesvaran, 2005). Intrapersonal determinants of whistle-blowing are more fruitfully explored in terms of self-regulatory processes than decontextualized personality traits. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 484

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the vault’s stance that attitude structure, not personality fields, predicts authoritarian support for harmful policy.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 484