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ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2025

Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors.

Cory J Clark, Matias Fjeldmark, Louise Lu, Roy F Baumeister, Stephen Ceci, Komi Frey, Geoffrey Miller, Wilfred Reilly, Dianne Tice, William von Hippel and 3 more

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Article in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Morally offensive scientific findings activate cognitive chicanery.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025
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  3. The PTSD Gestalt switch.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Cory J ClarkSchool of Arts and Sciences, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-3083-9179
Matias FjeldmarkIndependent.
Louise LuStanford Business School, Stanford University.
Roy F BaumeisterSchool of Psychology, University of Queensland.
Stephen CeciDepartment of Psychology, Cornell University.
Komi FreyResearch, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Geoffrey MillerDepartment of Psychology, University of New Mexico.
Wilfred ReillyPolitical Science Program, School of Criminal Justice and Government Relations, Kentucky State University.
Dianne TiceDepartment of Psychology, Brigham Young University.
William von HippelResearch with Impact.ORCID 0000-0001-9900-0868
Wendy M WilliamsDepartment of Psychology, Cornell University.
Bo M WinegardIndependent.
Philip E TetlockSchool of Arts and Sciences, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We identify points of conflict and consensus regarding (a) controversial empirical claims and (b) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship-and scholars-should be treated. In 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews (

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FacultyPsychologyAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedUnited Statesacademic freedomconflictmetascienceorganizational behaviorpsychologyself-censorshiptaboos

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PMID38752984
PMCPMC12408927

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