Scholarly Integrity

Offering Inducements for Research Participation

Reporting Research Results

Reviewers

Deception in Research

Debriefing

Informed Consent

Institutional Approval

Plagiarism

Publication Credit

Duplicate Data Publication

Data Sharing in Research

Humane Care and Use of Animals in Research

Nonhuman Animal Subjects in Research

What is the primary focus of Standard 8 of the APA Ethics Code?

Match each component of APA Ethical Standard 8 (Research and Publication) with the statement that best describes its ethical requirement.

A researcher is embarking on a new study regarding the bystander effect. Arrange the following actions in the correct chronological order as dictated by the procedural and ethical requirements of Standard 8 (Research and Publication) of the APA Ethics Code.

According to the requirements of Standard 8 (Research and Publication), if a research project is designed such that informed consent may be dispensed with (such as for anonymous surveys), the researcher is also ethically permitted to bypass the requirement for obtaining institutional approval prior to conducting the research.

According to Standard 8.07 of the APA Ethics Code, psychologists are prohibited from using deception in research that is reasonably expected to cause which of the following?

Standard 8 of the APA Ethics Code establishes essential guidelines for scholarly integrity in research and publication. Match each ethical standard with the description that best summarizes its core requirement.

A researcher discovers a significant statistical error in their published data that fundamentally changes the study's conclusions. According to Standard 8 (Research and Publication) of the APA Ethics Code, the researcher must prioritize _____ by taking reasonable steps to publicly correct the record through a retraction or erratum, even if doing so damages their professional reputation.

A psychology professor is preparing an empirical journal article based on a research study. A student assistant spent 40 hours performing routine data entry and formatting the references for the manuscript, but did not contribute to the study's conceptual design, data analysis, or writing. Under Standard 8 of the APA Ethics Code, the professor is ethically required to list this student as a co-author on the publication.

Liam, an undergraduate assistant, designs a novel cognitive experiment, conducts all testing, performs the statistical analyses, and writes the first draft of the manuscript. His advisor, Dr. Aris, provides editorial feedback and funds the study. When publishing the paper, Dr. Aris lists herself as the first author and Liam as the second author, justifying this because of her status as the lab director and grant holder. Under Standard 8 (Research and Publication), this authorship structure is an ethical violation because academic status or funding cannot be used to bypass the accurate assignment of _____.

Arrange the following research and publication practices in order from most ethically acceptable (fully aligned with Standard 8 of the APA Ethics Code) to least ethically acceptable (the most severe violation of Standard 8).