"Someone told me": Preemptive reputation protection in communication

• Francesca Giardini ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: f.giardini@rug.nl

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-0048

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• Stanka A. Fitneva,

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

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

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• Anne Tamm

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

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