Jared M. Block
I am a fourth year quantitative psychology student at UCLA. My research focuses on psychometrics and measurement.
University of California, Los Angeles
Session
The scientific community has faced a crisis of confidence in the quality of research. This structural distrust has extended to trainees, who, despite not facing the same pressures as later-stage academics, remain susceptible to questionable research practices (QRPs). However, no measure exists that seeks to evaluate how and why trainees engage in QRPs. To do so, we created a situational judgment task-based measure that simulated the pressure students face to engage in QRPs, such as HARKing, P-hacking, and false authorship, as well as open science practices, including preregistrations and making data open. Following the collection of open-ended responses, categorical responses were created to capture the gamut of potential responses to a scenario. Collecting categorical data, we performed multidimensional scaling and a Plackett-Luce model to evaluate the relationships between response options.