Questionable research practices among italian research psychologists.

ABSTRACT: A survey in the United States revealed that an alarmingly large percentage of university psychologists admitted having used questionable research practices that can contaminate the research literature with false positive and biased findings. We conducted a replication of this study among Italian research psychologists to investigate whether these findings generalize to other countries. All the original materials were translated into Italian, and members of the Italian Association of Psychology were invited to participate via an online survey. The percentages of Italian psychologists who admitted to having used ten questionable research practices were similar to the results obtained in the United States although there were small but significant differences in self-admission rates for some Q

SUBMITTER: Agnoli F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5351839 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature