Some Good News About Some Bad Practices

Investigated 68 American Psychological Association members' perceptions of the frequency, wrongness, and recommended sanctions for the unethical research practices of plagiarism and data fabrication through surveys that contained 2 scenarios, one depicting plagiarism and the other data fabrication by a psychologist, and questions regarding the psychologist's behavior. Results show that Ss believed that researchers infrequently engage in these behaviors and that adjudication procedures would be recommended when the behaviors did occur; action was recommended more often for plagiarism than for data fabrication. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)