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Publication pressure and questionable research practices: a moderated mediation model Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Yetong Gan, Yi Shi, Gaofeng Wang
This study investigated the relationship between publication pressure and questionable research practices (QRPs), focusing on moral disengagement (MD) and lab research ethics climate. A survey of 2...
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Exploring educators’ epistemological worldviews and their influence on pedagogical decision-making in scientific ethics education at Malaysian universities Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Mohd Salim Mohamed, Tan Zheng Hao
Scientific Ethics Education (SEE) plays a pivotal role in cultivating students’ understanding of complex ethical dilemmas and guiding their ethical decision-making processes. Effective instruction ...
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Cultural perspectives on academic dishonesty: exploring racial and ethnic diversity in higher education Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Lipaz Shamoa-Nir
This study explores academic dishonesty within higher education, with a particular focus on the perspectives of the Arab ethnic community in Israel. Through in-depth interviews involving 38 student...
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Research ethics education needs assessment in Serbian medical researchers Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Vida Jeremic Stojkovic, Smiljana Cvjetkovic, Zeljka Stamenkovic, Janko Jankovic, Pavle Piperac, Dragana Ignjatovic Ristic, Ivanka Markovic, Rosamond Rhodes
The lack of formal education in research ethics is a significant issue for the ethical conduct of research in Serbia. We conducted a cross-sectional survey on a sample of researchers and ethics com...
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The impact of perception of school moral atmosphere on college students’ moral sensitivity Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Aichun Liu, Shichao Wang, Renjie Li, Yulei Chen, Zhaojun Chen, Jianpeng Guo
This study examines the mediating role of moral identity in the relationship between the perception of school moral atmosphere and moral sensitivity, and the moderating role of belief in a just wor...
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Educator experiences with postgraduate psychology students exhibiting professional competence issues Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 E. Quinlan, J. Collison, F. P. Deane, C. H. Gooi, J. Paparo
Psychology training programs emphasize competencies like professional behavior, interpersonal skills, and emotional intelligence. Some students, known as students with problems of professional comp...
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Multimedia consent to improve decisional capacity among youth living with HIV: findings from a randomized controlled pilot trial Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Tiffany Chenneville, Serena Wasilewski, Eric Sumpter, Kaitlyn Ligman, Kemesha Gabbidon, Carina A. Rodriguez
This pilot randomized controlled trial explored the feasibility, acceptability, and potential utility of an intervention to improve the decisional capacity (DC) for research consent/assent among yo...
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Fraudulent participation in psychological research using virtual synchronous interviews: ethical challenges and potential solutions Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Kaitlyn McLachlan, Emma E. Truffyn, Bianka Dunleavy, Delane Linkiewich, Deborah Powell, Anna Taddio, C. Meghan McMurtry
Online research offers advantages including recruitment cost, diminished equity-related participation barriers, and convenience; however, there are growing concerns regarding fraudulent participati...
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Student-to-school counselor ratios: understanding the history and ethics behind professional staffing recommendations and realities in the United States Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Carleton H. Brown, David Knight
This manuscript explores the argument for lower student-to-school counselor ratios in U.S. public education. Drawing upon a comprehensive historical review and existing research, we establish the i...
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Why do we need to employ exemplars in moral education? Insights from recent advances in research on artificial intelligence Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Hyemin Han
In this paper, I examine why moral exemplars are useful and even necessary in moral education despite several critiques. To support my point, I review recent AI research demonstrating that exemplar...
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The participant’s voice: crowdsourced and undergraduate participants’ views toward ethics consent guidelines Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Nadine S. J. Stirling, Melanie K. T. Takarangi
The informed consent process presents challenges for psychological trauma research (e.g. Institutional Review Board [IRB] apprehension). While previous research documents researcher and IRB-member ...
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A bioecological systems review of ethical practice in educational and school psychology Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Paula Prendeville, William Kinsella
This narrative scoping review examines ethical practice in educational and school psychology from a bioecological systems’ perspective. A search of four databases yielded 34 articles in the final n...
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Enhancing comprehension of online informed consent: the impact of interactive elements and presentation formats Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Bree Holtz, Katharine Mitchell, Robyn Adams, Caitlin Grier, Jason Wright
Informed consent, a cornerstone of research ethics, ensures participant protection and informed participation, particularly in online settings. Despite its significance, engagement with online cons...
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The role of rationales for and criticisms of ethical decisions in the development of meta-moral cognitive skills Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Reena Cheruvalath, Emmanuel Manalo, Hiroaki Ayabe
Meta-moral cognitive skills consist of identifying reasons behind ethical decisions, potential criticisms for such reasons, and constructing counterarguments for these criticisms. We assessed the r...
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The drivers of academic cheating in online learning among Filipino undergraduate students Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jeannie A. Perez, Reinier Dave Zapanta, Rowena P. Heradura, Silfa C. Napicol
The susceptibility of online learning to cheating behavior remains a contentious and unresolved issue. A cross-sectional explanatory research design was utilized to test the hypothesized factors in...
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Faking health vulnerabilities to meet eligibility criteria to participate in paid internet-mediated research during the COVID-19 pandemic: three case reports Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Michael Hoerger
A key challenge in conducting paid internet-based studies is that individuals may feign eligibility to participate. This case series describes three examples where people attempted to fake being lo...
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Sociodemographic characteristics, moral sensitivity, and moral distress as predictors of nurses’ ageism toward older adults Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Parvaneh Vasli, Erfan Pourshahri, Kosar Pourhasan, Nasim Khajavian
The present study aimed to reflect on the predictive role of socio-demographic characteristics (SDCs), moral sensitivity (MS) and moral distress (MD) in nurses’ ageism toward older adults. A total ...
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Perceptions of ethical misconduct scale development Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Andrea C. Mendez-Meggison, Alexander T. Jackson, Michael B. Hein
Despite organizational ethical training programs, some employees still engage in unethical behavior. As such, organizational researchers have sought to examine why employees engage in unethical beh...
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Bibliometric review and mapping analysis of publication ethics research Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Mingyue Zhang, Jianguo Xu, Caihua Xu, Qingyong Zheng, Ming Liu, Jun Zhang, Hui Fu, Wen’an Qi, Junhua Zhang, Jinhui Tian
Publication ethics aim to protect intellectual property rights, ensure the originality of research work, and avoid plagiarism, including self-plagiarism. This study employed bibliometric methods to...
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Morality of vaccination: the influence of moral conviction on vaccination decisions Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Verena Aignesberger, Tobias Greitemeyer
Vaccine hesitancy persists despite vaccination’s important role in global health. As many vaccines provide social benefits through herd immunity, vaccination decisions can raise moral concerns. Two...
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Examining the influence of Islamic work ethics, organizational politics, and supervisor-initiated workplace incivility on employee deviant behaviors Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Shazia Nauman, Ameer A. Basit, Hassan Imam
This study investigates the connection between following Islamic work ethics (IWE) and workplace deviance, and explores the role of perceived organizational politics as a mediator and the impact of...
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Sheltering in chaos: parents’ experiences when facing moral challenges in childhood cancer care Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Charlotte Weiner, Pernilla Pergert, Anders Castor, Bert Molewijk, Cecilia Bartholdson
Childhood cancers are life-threatening diseases that affect the whole family. During the treatment moral situations might arise. Research on how parents perceive moral challenges in childhood cance...
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Environmental agency, moral reasoning, and moral disengagement in adults Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Giulia Gialdi, Antonella Somma, Sarah Songhorian, Nicole Bergamelli, Claudia Frau, Andrea Fossati
To assess the relationships between environmental agency, prosocial moral reasoning, and civic moral disengagement, 544 community-dwelling adults were administered the image-based Environmental Age...
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Learners’ self-assessment as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of research ethics and integrity training: can we rely on self-reports? Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Anu Tammeleht, Erika Löfström
While the most prevalent means to measure the effectiveness of research ethics and integrity training formats is using learners’ self-assessment, there is a need for reliable and feasible self-asse...
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Aligning values with standards: a comparison of professional values in Continuing Education standards Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Ana Rabasco, Gregory Neimeyer, Zeljka Macura, Dean McKay, Jason Washburn
Continuing Education (CE) aims to help health professionals fulfill their ethical responsibility of maintaining professional competence. This research compares the CE guidelines and standards of 11...
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Expert survey: safer research with parent survivors of child maltreatment Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Elmie Janse van Rensburg, Jeneva L. Ohan, Nicole Wickens, Helen Milroy, Ashleigh Lin
Intergenerational trauma research typically focuses on parent survivors. No specific guidelines are available for conducting research with parent survivors despite potentially unique risks. To inve...
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Competence-based assessment and training for ethical situations in practice: a pilot study Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Benjamin M. Ogles, Kristin Lang Hansen, David M. Erekson
In this pilot study, deliberate practice and competence-based assessment were incorporated into a first-year graduate course on professional issues and ethics. Students responded to challenging sim...
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Unethical pro-organizational behavior and task performance: a moderated mediation model of depression and self-reflection Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Xuejing Hao, Yang Sui, Qiusi Yan
This study develops and tests a model based on affective events theory. It specifies that engaging in unethical pro-organizational behaviors (UPB) decreases employee task performance through depres...
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Uncovering prospective teachers’ sense of moral agency within a multi-layered framework: an integrative grounded theory approach Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Altay Eren, Anıl Rakıcıoğlu-Söylemez
Using an integrative grounded theory design, this study investigated prospective teachers’ moral perceptions, emotions, behavioral intentions, and reasons for their moral behavioral intentions conc...
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“The relationship between citizens’ ethical attitude and cultural orientation” Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Seungjoo Han, Jongsoon Jin, Geoboo Song
ABSTRACT This study seeks to understand how citizens’ more intrinsic cultural orientations shape their attitudes toward the importance of ethics. Drawing upon the Grid-Group Cultural Theory, we investigate how four different cultural orientations influence citizens’ attitudes toward ethics in distinctive ways. Our multivariate analysis of the survey responses of 1,260 Seoul citizens revealed that strong
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Ethical considerations for requesting waivers of parental consent for research with minor adolescents who identify as LGBTQ+ Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Serena Wasilewski
Parental consent poses challenges to needed research with adolescents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning (LGBTQ+) and are at heightened risk for negative ...
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Older people are perceived as more moral than younger people: data from seven culturally diverse countries Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Piotr Sorokowski, Marta Kowal, Sadiq Hussain, Rashid Ali Haideri, Michał Misiak, Kiriakos Chatzipentidis, Mehmet Kibris Mahmut, W.P. Malecki, Jakub Dąbrowski, Tomasz Frackowiak, Anna Bartkowiak, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura
ABSTRACT Given the adage “older and wiser,” it seems justified to assume that older people may be stereotyped as more moral than younger people. We aimed to study whether assessments of a person’s morality differ depending on their age. We asked 661 individuals from seven societies (Australians, Britons, Burusho of Pakistan, Canadians, Dani of Papua, New Zealanders, and Poles) whether younger (~20-year-old)
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Unethical behavior at work: the effects of ethical culture and implicit and explicit moral identity Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 M. M. Resende, J. B. Porto, F. J. Gracia, I. Tomás
The literature on ethical behavior has called for studies that investigate the interaction between individual and contextual factors. This study examined whether moral identity interacts with ethic...
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Does perceived parental emotional warmth contribute to adults’ higher compassion? The mediating role of moral identity Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Alexandra Maftei, Camelia Alexandra Burdea
ABSTRACT Previous studies suggested that parenting is critically important in the development of both moral identity and compassion, but more research is needed concerning the stability of these effects and whether they carry over into adulthood. The present study addressed this issue by examining the link between a specific dimension of perceived parental style and compassion and the mediating role
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Mischievous responders: data quality lessons learned in mental health research Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Morgan E. Browning, Sidney L. Satterfield, Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson
Internet recruitment methods for research are rapidly evolving as technology and participant preferences do as well. This brings data security concerns, balanced with respect to persons for researc...
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Independent adolescent consent to mental health care: an ethical perspective Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Cassandra B. Rowan
Despite a growing need for mental health services for adolescents, treatment access among adolescents remains poor. Psychologists practicing in the United States are subject to highly variable lega...
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The role of moral identity in the salience of the prescriptive and proscriptive systems of moral self-regulation Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Tammy L. Sonnentag, Taylor W. Wadian, Margaret J. Wolfson
There are two fundamental self-regulatory systems for moral action reflecting an approach-oriented system promoting moral action (prescriptive morality) and an avoidance-oriented system restraining...
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Keep talking, I need to check my phone! Online vigilance and phubbing: the role of loneliness and moral disengagement Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Alexandra Maftei, Cornelia Măirean
In the present study, we investigated the relationship between online vigilance and phubbing, a specific form of technoference that implies ignoring someone while favoring technological, Internet-b...
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Moral disengagement and academic engagement: the moderating roles of educational anti-mattering and psychological distress Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Alexandra Maftei, Cristian Opariuc-Dan, Tina Vrabie
Research concerning the link between morality and education-related variables is scarce. Thus, the present study addressed this issue by focusing on the connection between moral disengagement and a...
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Organizational identification and unethical pro-organizational behavior: a culture-moderated meta-analysis Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Chenyang Li
In recent years, the adverse implications of organizational identification (OID) have received significant attention in the field of organizational behavior research, particularly as it is consider...
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Academic dishonesty among Greek University students from different disciplines: a latent profile analysis of cheating perceptions and academic self-handicapping Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Constantinos M. Kokkinos, Nafsika Antoniadou, Ioanna Voulgaridou
This study investigated the associations between academic dishonesty, perceptions toward cheating and academic self-handicapping in 572 Greek University students using an online anonymous questionn...
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Decent care and decent employment: family caregivers, migrant care workers and moral dilemmas Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Daniella Arieli, Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz
This paper examines moral dilemmas faced by family caregivers of older adults who employ live-in migrant care workers. Being both a family caregiver as well as an employer of a live-in migrant care...
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Sensitivity to moral goodness under different aesthetic contexts Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Chenjing Wu, Hongyan Zhu, Yameng Zhang, Wei Zhang, Xianyou He
Does context influence our appreciation of beauty? To answer this question, two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of contextual aesthetics on the recognition of moral behavior. Exp...
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The effect of leader unethical pro-organizational behaviour on subordinate silence: the mediating role of moral ownership Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Silu Chen, Chenling Tian, Huan Cheng, Jiaxin Lai
This study explores the psychological mechanism underlying and the boundary condition affecting the relationship between leader unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) and subordinate silence. ...
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Moral reasoning development: norms for Defining Issue Test-2 (DIT2) Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Nahide Gungordu, Ghasim Nabizadehchianeh, Erin O’Connor, Wenchao Ma, David I. Walker
This article presents normative information for the Defining Issue Test Version 2 (DIT2) schema scores and most common summary scores based on secondary data from the last 10 years DIT2 database (N...
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Nature and causes of questionable research practice and research misconduct from a philosophy of science perspective Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Bor Luen Tang
Misconduct in science is often viewed and analyzed through the lenses of normative ethics and moral philosophy. However, notions and methods in the philosophy of science could also provide rather p...
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Confidentiality, informed consent, and multiple relationships in four emerging regions Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Jacqueline E. Akhurst, Mark M. Leach
Published in Ethics & Behavior (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2023)
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Informed consent, multiple relationships, and confidentiality: a comparison across four countries Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Mark M. Leach, Jacqueline E. Akhurst
Published in Ethics & Behavior (Vol. 33, No. 3, 2023)
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The blind obedience of others: a better than average effect in a Milgram-like experiment Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Laurent Bègue, Kevin Vezirian
In two highly powered studies (total N = 1617), we showed that individuals estimated that they would stop earlier than others in a Milgram-like biomedical task leading to the death of an animal, co...
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Depressive symptoms are associated with utilitarian responses in trolley dilemmas: a study amongst university students in the United Arab Emirates Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Gabriel Andrade, Khadiga Yasser Abdelraouf Abdelmonem, Nour Alqaderi, Hajar Jamal Teir, Ahmed Banibella Abdelmagied Elamin, Dalia Bedewy
Trolley dilemmas have been used to justify the intuitive appeal of the doctrine of double effect. According to this doctrine, if a good action has a harmful side effect, it is morally acceptable to...
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Grey zones and good practice: A European survey of academic integrity among undergraduate students Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Mads Paludan Goddiksen, Mikkel Willum Johansen, Anna Catharina Armond, Mateja Centa, Christine Clavien, Eugenijus Gefenas, Roman Globokar, Linda Hogan, Nóra Kovács, Marcus Tang Merit, I.Anna S. Olsson, Margarita Poškutė, Una Quinn, Júlio Borlido Santos, Rita Santos, Céline Schöpfer, Vojko Strahovnik, Orsolya Varga, P. J. Wall, Peter Sandøe, Thomas Bøker Lund
Good academic practice is more than the avoidance of clear-cut cheating. It also involves navigation of the gray zones between cheating and good practice. The existing literature has left students’...
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Rising to our Obligation to Give Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Diana Quito
Published in Ethics & Behavior (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Teaching publication ethics to clinical psychology doctoral students: case-based learning and semi-structured interview strategies Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Arthur L. Whaley, Jean Kesnold Mesidor
Doctoral students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology programs often collaborate with faculty on research projects in their training as scientist-practitioners. Yet, the determination of...
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Ethical leadership influences proactive and unethical behavior: the perspective of person-environment fit Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Hung-Yu Tsai
An increasing number of studies explore the relationship between ethical leadership and subordinates’ work behavior. However, it remains unclear whether ethical leadership affects subordinates’ per...
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Does childhood maltreatment make us more morally disengaged? The indirect effect of expressive suppression Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Alexandra Maftei, Ștefania Nițu
The present cross-sectional study explored whether childhood maltreatment might lead to moral disengagement through emotion regulation strategies, i.e. expressive suppression and cognitive reapprai...
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Knowledge about and attitudes toward medical informed consent: a Lebanese population survey Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Mary Deeb, Dana Alameddine, Rasha Abi Radi Abou Jaoudeh, Widian Laoun, Julian Maamari, Rawan Honeini, Alain Khouri, Fadi Abou-Mrad, Nassib Elia, Aniella Abi-Gerges
As Medicine shifts from a paternalistic practice to a patient-centered approach, the concept of medical informed consent (IC) has evolved to safeguard patient autonomy. However, its current impleme...
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Implementation of a risk reduction protocol in youth violence research Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Kimberly J. Mitchell, Michele L. Ybarra, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Lauren A. Jackson, Christina E. Patts
This article presents data from the Growing up with Media study related to the implementation of a risk reduction protocol that resulted in three groups of youth: low-risk youth (no flags), youth f...
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Ethical codes in the Arab region: comparisons and differences Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 B Khoury, L. Akoury-Dirani
ABSTRACT Within the professional practice of psychology the code of ethics characterizes what is morally right or wrong, by means of a set of principles, values, and standards of conduct. While there are numerous international mental health organizations that incorporate ethical guidelines such as the APA and EFPA; these codes still fall short in providing guidelines for psychologists working in non-western
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Listen, explain, involve, and evaluate: why respecting autonomy benefits suicidal patients Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Samuel J. Knapp
Out of a concern for keeping suicidal patients alive, some psychotherapists may use hard persuasion or coercion to keep them in treatment. However, more recent evidence-supported interventions have...
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Graduate student perceptions of preparedness for responsible conduct of research: a mixed methods study Ethics & Behavior (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Yasar Kondakci, Merve Zayim Kurtay, Sevgi Kaya Kasikci, Özgür Önen
This study aims to explore the factors contributing to the perceived preparedness of graduate students for responsible conduct of research (RCR). A convergent mixed design was used, and both interv...