About the Authors

Sarah J. Harsey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sarah.harsey@osucascades.edu

Affiliations School of Psychological Science, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University–Cascades, Bend, Oregon, United States of America, Center for Institutional Courage, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alexis A. Adams-Clark

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Institutional Courage, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Jennifer J. Freyd

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Institutional Courage, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Jennifer J. Freyd, PhD, is the Founder and President of the Center for Institutional Courage and Professor Emerit of Psychology at the University of Oregon. She is also a Member of the Advisory Committee, 2019-2023, for the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Freyd is the author of the Harvard Press book Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse. Her most recent book Blind to Betrayal, co-authored with Pamela J. Birrell, was published by John Wiley. For these books Freyd receives royalties. She is often paid honoraria for presentations and she has served as an expert witness on some legal cases for both profit and nonprofit law firms and she has consulted for some governmental and nonprofit organizations. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.