Confidentiality in Peer Review

According to the APA Ethics Code, what is a primary ethical obligation for psychologists who act as reviewers for materials such as research proposals or publications?

Match each ethical obligation of a research reviewer with the scenario that best illustrates its application according to the APA Ethics Code.

While reviewing a manuscript submitted to a psychology journal, Dr. Singh identifies a unique experimental control technique that would solve a problem in his own current research. According to the APA Ethics Code, Dr. Singh is acting ethically if he incorporates this technique into his own study immediately, as long as he does not share the manuscript's data with anyone else.

A psychologist is being investigated for an ethical breach following their role as a grant reviewer. Arrange the following steps in the logical order required to analyze whether a violation of the submitter's proprietary rights has occurred.

Match each ethical component of a reviewer's role with its correct description according to the APA Ethics Code.

According to the APA Ethics Code, what does the ethical obligation regarding confidentiality and proprietary rights require of a psychologist acting as a peer reviewer for a research manuscript?

A psychologist acting as a reviewer decides that because a submitted grant proposal is likely to be rejected, it is acceptable to adopt its unique participant-recruitment strategy for their own research. To evaluate this psychologist's reasoning as an ethical breach under the APA Ethics Code, one must identify that they failed to respect the submitter's _____ rights.

Dr. Smith is reviewing an unpublished manuscript submitted to a psychology journal. He notices that the authors have developed a novel experimental task. Because he believes the manuscript will be rejected, he shares this task with a colleague so they can implement it in their own lab. True or False: Dr. Smith's action violates the APA Ethics Code standard for reviewers.

A psychologist acting as a peer reviewer who uses a novel methodology described in an unpublished grant proposal for their own research, without the applicant's consent, violates the submitter's _____ rights under the APA Ethics Code.

An ethics panel is evaluating an allegation that a psychologist acting as a reviewer violated standard ethical guidelines. Order the following steps from first to last to show how the panel should evaluate whether a reviewer breached their ethical obligations under the APA Ethics Code.