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ArticleJournal of health psychology2021

Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society.

Russell Craig, Anthony Pelosi, Dennis Tourish

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Article in Journal of health psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Russell CraigUniversity of Durham, Faculty of Business, Durham, UK.
Anthony PelosiPriory Hospital Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5501-2661
Dennis TourishUniversity of Sussex School of Business Management and Economics, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A formal complaint was lodged with the British Psychological Society in 1995 that alleged serious scientific misconduct by Hans J Eysenck. The complaint referred to research into the links between personality traits and the causes, prevention and treatment of cancer and heart disease. Using a framework of institutional logics, we criticise the Society's decision not to hear this complaint at a full disciplinary hearing. We urge the BPS to investigate this complaint afresh. We also support calls for the establishment of an independent National Research Integrity Ombudsperson to deal more effectively with allegations of research misconduct.

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Heart DiseasesScientific MisconductHumansLogicBritish Psychological Societypersonality and cancerpersonality and fatal diseasespersonality and ischaemic heart diseaseresearch misconductresearch policy

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PMID33111570
PMCPMC7859669

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