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Plemmons DK, Baranski EN, Harp K, et al. A randomized trial of a lab-embedded discourse intervention to improve research ethics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(3):1389-1394doi: 10.1073/pnas.1917848117.
Plemmons, D. K., Baranski, E. N., Harp, K., Lo, D. D., Soderberg, C. K., Errington, T. M., Nosek, B. A., & Esterling, K. M. (2020). A randomized trial of a lab-embedded discourse intervention to improve research ethics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(3), 1389-1394. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917848117
Plemmons, Dena K, et al. "A randomized trial of a lab-embedded discourse intervention to improve research ethics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 117,3 (2020): 1389-1394. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917848117
Plemmons DK, Baranski EN, Harp K, Lo DD, Soderberg CK, Errington TM, Nosek BA, Esterling KM. A randomized trial of a lab-embedded discourse intervention to improve research ethics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jan 21;117(3):1389-1394. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1917848117. Epub 2020 Jan 09. PMID: 31919283; PMCID: PMC6983427.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jan 21;117(3):1389-1394. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1917848117. Epub 2020 Jan 09.

A randomized trial of a lab-embedded discourse intervention to improve research ethics.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Dena K Plemmons, Erica N Baranski, Kyle Harp, David D Lo, Courtney K Soderberg, Timothy M Errington, Brian A Nosek, Kevin M Esterling

Affiliations

  1. Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521; [email protected] [email protected].
  2. Institute on Place, Wellbeing and Performance, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85711.
  3. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521.
  4. School of Medicine Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521.
  5. Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, VA 22903 U.S.A.
  6. Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
  7. School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 31919283 PMCID: PMC6983427 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917848117

Abstract

We report a randomized trial of a research ethics training intervention designed to enhance ethics communication in university science and engineering laboratories, focusing specifically on authorship and data management. The intervention is a project-based research ethics curriculum that was designed to enhance the ability of science and engineering research laboratory members to engage in reason giving and interpersonal communication necessary for ethical practice. The randomized trial was fielded in active faculty-led laboratories at two US research-intensive institutions. Here, we show that laboratory members perceived improvements in the quality of discourse on research ethics within their laboratories and enhanced awareness of the relevance and reasons for that discourse for their work as measured by a survey administered over 4 mo after the intervention. This training represents a paradigm shift compared with more typical module-based or classroom ethics instruction that is divorced from the everyday workflow and practices within laboratories and is designed to cultivate a campus culture of ethical science and engineering research in the very work settings where laboratory members interact.

Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS.

Keywords: authorship; data management; randomized trial; research ethics

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interest statement: C.K.S., T.M.E., and B.A.N. are employed by the nonprofit Center for Open Science that has a mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research and w

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