Duplicate Data Publication

Data Sharing in Research

Confidentiality in Peer Review

Data Fabrication

Publication Credit

Plagiarism

Data Falsification

Self-Plagiarism

According to the APA Ethics Code, which of the following actions is strictly prohibited in order to maintain scholarly integrity?

To maintain scholarly integrity, a researcher may selectively omit a few contradictory data points from their final report, provided that the study's overall conclusion remains unchanged.

To maintain scholarly integrity, researchers must apply specific ethical principles when reporting and publishing their work. Match each researcher's action with the specific ethical principle it best illustrates.

A psychology research team is finalizing a manuscript for publication and must assign authorship credit according to the principles of scholarly integrity. Arrange the following individuals in order of their priority for authorship, from the person with the most significant intellectual contribution to the individual whose role does not justify authorship credit.

You are tasked with creating a comprehensive 'Scholarly Integrity Protocol' for a psychology research team to use during the publication process. Which of the following protocol designs most effectively synthesizes the APA Ethics Code's requirements for honest reporting with the accurate assignment of authorship credit?

Which of the following statements best explains the scientific rationale for why psychological researchers must maintain scholarly integrity under the APA Ethics Code?

A researcher argues that omitting 'messy' data points that contradict their hypothesis is acceptable because it allows the scientific community to focus on the most 'promising' discovery. In evaluating this justification, the researcher is violating scholarly integrity by failing to fulfill the fundamental duty of _____ reporting.

To maintain scholarly integrity, the APA Ethics Code outlines obligations that include strict prohibitions against data fabrication and _____.

A psychology researcher conducts an experiment on memory but finds that some data points do not support their hypothesis. Reasoning that the scientific goal is to discover how the world actually is and that these points are anomalous noise, they omit them from the final paper without disclosure. According to the APA Ethics Code's standards for scholarly integrity, this action is a violation of their ethical duties.

To maintain scholarly integrity during the publication process, researchers must evaluate and apply specific standards under the APA Ethics Code. Match each ethical obligation with the scenario that best represents a violation of that standard.

According to the APA Ethics Code, a researcher's obligation to maintain scholarly integrity during the publication process includes accurate assignment of authorship credit and strict prohibitions against which of the following practices?

When a researcher invents numbers for a study rather than reporting actual observations, they fail in their duty to describe the world as it actually is. This severe violation of scholarly integrity, which is explicitly prohibited by the APA Ethics Code alongside plagiarism, is known as data ____.

Arrange the following stages of a research project in chronological order to demonstrate how a research team applies the APA Ethics Code principles of scholarly integrity from initial data handling to final publication.

In the context of scholarly integrity, what is the primary scientific goal that obligates researchers to report their results honestly and accurately?

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates a researcher upholding scholarly integrity as defined by the APA Ethics Code?

Dr. Lin conducts an experiment on memory consolidation but struggles to recruit enough participants. Believing strongly that her theory is correct, she invents scores for ten non-existent participants and adds them to her final dataset to ensure her paper is accepted for publication. According to the APA Ethics Code's standards for scholarly integrity, which specific prohibition has Dr. Lin violated, and what is the primary reason this action is unethical?

Dr. Smith submits a manuscript on social conformity. In the paper's introduction, Dr. Smith incorporates a theoretical background section copied verbatim from another scientist's published work without providing any citation. Furthermore, Dr. Smith lists themselves as the sole author, placing a graduate student—who designed the study, performed all statistical analyses, and wrote the results section—only in the acknowledgments. Based on the APA Ethics Code's principles of scholarly integrity, how should these actions be analyzed?

An institutional review committee is evaluating a recent publication by a psychology researcher. The committee discovers that the researcher intentionally omitted a significant portion of the collected data because those specific responses contradicted their preferred hypothesis. In their defense, the researcher argues that the omitted data was 'noisy' and that removing it was necessary to present a clear, compelling narrative to the scientific community. Based on the APA Ethics Code's standards for scholarly integrity, which of the following is the most accurate evaluation of the researcher's defense?