Bounded research ethicality: researchers rate themselves and their field as better than others at following good research practice.
Sci Rep
; 14(1): 3050, 2024 02 06.
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ABSTRACT
Bounded ethicality refers to people's limited capacity to consistently behave in line with their ethical standards. Here, we present results from a pre-registered, large-scale (N = 11,050) survey of researchers in Sweden, suggesting that researchers too are boundedly ethical. Specifically, researchers on average rated themselves as better than other researchers in their field at following good research practice, and rated researchers in their own field as better than researchers in other fields at following good research practice. These effects were stable across all academic fields, but strongest among researchers in the medical sciences. Taken together, our findings illustrate inflated self-righteous beliefs among researchers and research disciplines when it comes to research ethics, which may contribute to academic polarization and moral blindspots regarding one's own and one's colleagues' use of questionable research practices.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Principios Morales
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
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Sci Rep
Año:
2024
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Article
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Suecia