From: Minneapolis Post
New questions about the integrity of psychological research
Minneapolis Post:
The integrity of psychological research (like medical research) has come increasingly under fire.
Earlier this year, a scandal erupted about the work of a prominent and extensively published psychologist, Diederik Stapel, most recently of Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He was found to have committed widespread academic fraud, which called into question his well-publicized findings on a variety of psychological topics, including racial stereotyping and advertising and identity.
Just this year he received a lot of press for his findings that claimed a messy environment led white people to discriminate more against black people and a diet high in red meat made people more selfish. (In the wake of the fraud charges again Stapel, Science magazine issued “an editorial expression of concern” last month regarding the racial stereotyping article.)
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