2026-05-07 –, Track 1
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.
Dr. Amanda K. Montoya, Dr. William L. D. Krenzer
Could you give us a rough idea of what your lightning talk will cover? Such as:: A brief presentation of future research (a study that has not yet started), A brief presentation of past research (a completed study)
I am a fourth year quantitative psychology student at UCLA. My research focuses on psychometrics and measurement.