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Questionable Research Practices, Preregistration, and More – Exploring Self-Report Opinions of Swedish and Dutch PhD Students

Arlinghaus, Nils LU (2018) PSYP01 20181
Department of Psychology
Abstract
For this exploratory study, I reached out to all 302 individuals that were listed as PhD students at the psychology departments of all Swedish and Dutch “Top 100” universities. The final 111 participants (37.9% response rate) were asked to indicate how often they encountered questionable research practices (QRPs) and replied to items asking about the impact of QRPs on themselves and their environment, thoughts of leaving academia, implications of the “replication crisis”, and knowledge and use of preregistrations. The results indicated that QRPs were common, but that the type of QRP mattered. While only 3.7% of participants considered leaving academia because of fear of “replication bullies”, 23.9% considered leaving academia because they... (More)
For this exploratory study, I reached out to all 302 individuals that were listed as PhD students at the psychology departments of all Swedish and Dutch “Top 100” universities. The final 111 participants (37.9% response rate) were asked to indicate how often they encountered questionable research practices (QRPs) and replied to items asking about the impact of QRPs on themselves and their environment, thoughts of leaving academia, implications of the “replication crisis”, and knowledge and use of preregistrations. The results indicated that QRPs were common, but that the type of QRP mattered. While only 3.7% of participants considered leaving academia because of fear of “replication bullies”, 23.9% considered leaving academia because they were disillusioned by the problems revealed by the replication crisis. Results also indicated that the more QRPs a student encountered, the higher the chance that they had thought of leaving because of being disillusioned. Preregistration was widely known, but the majority had never preregistered a project. The study provides first insights in the situation of PhD students in Sweden and the Netherlands and can serve as a foundation for confirmatory research in the future. (Less)
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author
Arlinghaus, Nils LU
supervisor
organization
course
PSYP01 20181
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Questionable research practices, early-career researchers, preregistration, replication crisis
language
English
additional info
Project page: https://osf.io/bmcdw/
id
8951468
date added to LUP
2018-06-20 13:14:30
date last changed
2019-06-01 03:45:32
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  abstract     = {{For this exploratory study, I reached out to all 302 individuals that were listed as PhD students at the psychology departments of all Swedish and Dutch “Top 100” universities. The final 111 participants (37.9% response rate) were asked to indicate how often they encountered questionable research practices (QRPs) and replied to items asking about the impact of QRPs on themselves and their environment, thoughts of leaving academia, implications of the “replication crisis”, and knowledge and use of preregistrations. The results indicated that QRPs were common, but that the type of QRP mattered. While only 3.7% of participants considered leaving academia because of fear of “replication bullies”, 23.9% considered leaving academia because they were disillusioned by the problems revealed by the replication crisis. Results also indicated that the more QRPs a student encountered, the higher the chance that they had thought of leaving because of being disillusioned. Preregistration was widely known, but the majority had never preregistered a project. The study provides first insights in the situation of PhD students in Sweden and the Netherlands and can serve as a foundation for confirmatory research in the future.}},
  author       = {{Arlinghaus, Nils}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Questionable Research Practices, Preregistration, and More – Exploring Self-Report Opinions of Swedish and Dutch PhD Students}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}