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Showed that employees psychologically detach from the organisation before they physically exit — and that this detachment suppresses voice. The mechanism runs through attachment: those who care about the organisation speak up; those who have already mentally left do not. Directly relevant to the calculus of voice: the decision to stay silent is not always fear of consequences but sometimes prior disengagement from the stakes. Connects the PS/voice literature to turnover and withdrawal research, and has implications for how silence should be interpreted — it is not always a signal that people feel unsafe, sometimes it signals they have already given up.