Assessing the Efficacy of a Training Intervention to Reduce Acceptance of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology Graduate Students
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2019
Department
Psychology
Abstract
We designed and tested the efficacy of a 1-hr training session to mitigate endorsement of questionable research practices (QRPs), research practices that raise ethical concerns and are detrimental to reproducible science, in psychology graduate students. We assessed attitudes toward QRPs 1 week prior to the training, 1 week following the training, and at 2-month follow-up. Participants reported QRPs as less ethically defensible 1 week following the intervention compared with 1 week prior, with attitudes at 2-month follow-up falling in between these time points. Results were maintained even when controlling for socially desirable responding. Participants who rated the training more favorably demonstrated greater attitude change toward detrimental research practices. These results provide evidence that an intervention to educate graduate students about QRPs and their negative impact on science can mitigate consideration of such practices as ethically defensible, although such benefits may not hold over time without additional training sessions.
Publication Title
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
Volume
14
Issue
3
First Page
209
Last Page
218
Recommended Citation
Sacco, D. F.,
Brown, M.
(2019). Assessing the Efficacy of a Training Intervention to Reduce Acceptance of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology Graduate Students. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 14(3), 209-218.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/16373