Does psychology have a conflict-of-interest problem?

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Research Review: Conflicts of Interest (COIs) in autism early intervention research - a meta-analysis of COI influences on intervention effects.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2021
   Pooled it
2. Digital Therapeutics and Blended Care in Major Depressive Disorder: Current Evidence and Future Directions.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
   Review
3. Addressing the criticisms and critiques of positive psychology: recommendations for improving the science and practice of the field.Frontiers in psychology · 2025
   Article
4. Four Misconceptions About Nonverbal Communication.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023
   Article
5. The role of implementation organizations in scaling evidence-based psychosocial interventions.Implementation science : IS · 2023
   Article
6. Research Ethics for Behavior Analysts in Practice.Behavior analysis in practice · 2023
   Review
7. Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014-2017).Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022
   Article
8. Ten simple rules for open human health research.PLoS computational biology · 2020
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Rule out conflicts of interest in psychology awards.2019

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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