Avoiding conflicts of interest in awards: Assessing the availability of conflicts of interest statements of psychological societies

Andrea Stoevenbelt*, Michèle Nuijten, B. Pauli, Jelte Wicherts

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Unclear regulations on conflicts of interest (COI) might lead to nepotism in the handing out of academic prizes and awards awarded by professional societies and associations. To assess to availability of statements on COIs, we systematically searched the websites of 58 psychological societies. We found that 27.6% had no COI statement available on their website. 27.6% included a statement on COIs on their website, but did not mention awards or prizes specifically. Only 44.8% of the included societies had an online COI statement that included a section on awards. Therefore, the majority of the included societies did not feature a findable COI statement pertaining to awards on their website.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherPsyArXiv Preprints
Number of pages17
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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