Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society

Craig, Russell; Pelosi, Anthony; Tourish, Dennis

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Section: The Problem Of Genetic Tramlines and Concessions To Environm...mentioning

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“…In 1997 (the year of Eysenck's death) the IoP was incorporated into KCL; hence their ownership of his legacy, when it was later reviewed. Pelosi and his colleagues, summarised the case against Eysenck when lobbying for the reviews (Craig, Pelosi, and Tourish, 2021; Marks, 2019; Pelosi, 2019). Both were eventually triggered by the latter author's intervention, as is clear here from the summary statement from KCL:In response to an open letter to Professor Edward Byrne, President and Principal of King's College London, from David F Marks, Editor of the Journal of Health Psychology, and subsequent publication in the Journal of Health Psychology, King's convened a committee with an independent chair, to examine research papers authored by Professor Hans Eysenck with Professor Ronald Grossarth-Maticek, which named the Institute of Psychiatry as an institutional affiliation.…”

Section: Provocative Claims About Homosexuality Race and Smokingmentioning

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“…The delay in reviewing Eysenck's work, while he was alive, by the IoP and the BPS may have been inflected by anxieties of those in power about a bullish and controversial figure in the profession of British clinical psychology. Craig et al . (2021) offered their view of the reasons for delay, related to the tension in organisations between their reputational integrity, on the one hand, and the risk to this of intellectual probity when examining adverse events, on the other.…”

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Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology

Pilgrim

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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An account is provided of the historical context of the work one of the best-known figures in British psychology in the 20th century, Hans Eysenck. Recently some of this has come under critical scrutiny, especially in relation to claims of data rigging in his model of smoking and morbidity, produced from the 1960s to the 1980s. The article places that controversy, and others associated with Eysenck, in the longer context of the shifting forms of epistemological and political legitimacy within British psychology in the past hundred years. Eysenck was both lionised and disparaged during his life and after his death. This account explores that ambiguity in order to discern the challenge for British psychology to maintain disciplinary coherence. An understanding of this fluxing historical picture is guided by the meta-theoretical resource of critical realism.

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Section: The Problem Of Genetic Tramlines and Concessions To Environm...mentioning

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2023

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“…These two papers summarize the concerns about the quality of the data, the methodology, statistical procedures, and conflicts of interests that plague the Eysenck and Grossarth‐Maticek papers. Following the release of the KCL report, two additional papers voiced concerns about the review committee's decision‐making process, the historical (and institutional) context of the issues at play, and subsequent response of the professional community to the report (Craig et al, 2021; Marks & Buchanan, 2020). In my opinion, these papers are essential reading for understanding the arguments and available information about the controversies surrounding the Eysenck and Grossarth‐Maticek studies and the review process that resulted in the report.…”

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Editor's vale dictum: Activities, challenges and reflections from the line in between 2011 and 2023, Journal of Clinical Psychology

Elliott

2023

J Clin Psychol

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My tenure as Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology ends with the final issue of this volume (its 79th). During my twelve-year term, our editorial team achieved several goals and experienced new challenges and trends from within our profession, and from changes and events in contemporary society. As discussed in my opening editorial (Elliott, 2011), I had several goals for the journal. I wanted to continue its position as an independent voice in professional psychology scholarship and research, receptive to innovative and creative studies that might be in early stages of development, focused on topics not yet "on the radar" of policymakers, or perhaps too unconventional to attract support from federal funding agencies. We would prioritize intervention studies, and we were open to those conducted in clinical settings with small sample sizes. I wanted to provide a home for papers that addressed understudied issues, and for those that addressed the challenges facing our profession in science, training, practice, and policy.To the best of my knowledge, my predecessors-Vladimir Pishkin, Larry E. Beutler, and Beverly E. Thorn-did not publish a final editorial to document their experiences, accomplishments, and challenges as editor of the journal.I think a vale dictum-a closing editorial-can be important to the history of the journal, specifically, and perhaps for the profession. In this farewell, I detail several of the activities and accomplishments over the past 12 volumes, and I will share some of the events and challenges we encountered. I will close with final observations that will, hopefully, stimulate further thought and action in response to current issues facing our profession and our scholarship.

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“…Whilst health psychology aims to promote people’s wellbeing, it may also have facilitated the growth, actions and, ultimately, harm caused by baldness-, tobacco-, and other- commercial industries (e.g. Craig et al, 2020; Curtis, 2002; Marks and Buchanan, 2020; Ogden, 2019; Pelosi, 2019). More specifically, psychology may have facilitated the commercial balding industry through the medicalization of baldness.…”

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Psychology’s medicalization of male baldness

Jankowski

Frith

2021

J Health Psychol

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Male baldness is physically benign though it is increasingly described as a “disease” based on claims that it is profoundly distressing. The medicalization of baldness was assessed using data extracted from a review of 37 male baldness psychosocial impact studies. Findings revealed most studies likely had commercial influences (78%), represented baldness as a disease (77%), were conducted on biased samples (68%), and advocated for baldness products/services (60%), omitting their limitations (68%). Health psychologists should challenge baldness medicalization so that men can make informed choices about what, if anything, they do with their baldness.

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Research misconduct complaints and institutional logics: The case of Hans Eysenck and the British Psychological Society

Cited by 9 publications

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Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology

Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology

Editor's vale dictum: Activities, challenges and reflections from the line in between 2011 and 2023, Journal of Clinical Psychology

Psychology’s medicalization of male baldness

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