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Within the last years, whistleblowing has received considerable attention, as calls for ethical behavior in the workplace have grown louder. Despite this fact, research has shown that individuals who blow the whistle are often frowned upon and treated poorly. Previous research already tried to explain unethical behavior on social media by linking moral receptors with moral disengagement in the context of unethical behavior. For an explanation on the origins and variations in human reasoning typically Moral Foundations Theory and its ’gold-standard’ measurement scale—the Moral Foundation Questionnaire—are used. The scale has been used extensively in a range of empirical projects. However, recent research also raises criticisms from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. In this paper, a comprehensive set of Moral Foundations vignettes is developed to address some of the issues raised with the …