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Decline (handing out) individual awards: An additional way to help change incentives in Psychological Science?

December 2017

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When our scientific institutions allow, or worse, encourage, our desire for eminence or impact to rule the roost, scientific rigor will suffer (Vazire, 2017). It can therefore be seen as unhelpful that many Psychological Science organizations feel the need to hand out awards to individuals. As Vazire (2017) states: “Science should be scientific”. If, and that may be a big if, there are scientifically useful and/or valid reasons to hand out awards, perhaps explicitly handing out awards to papers instead of people would serve the same purpose, and would be more in line with scientific values and principles.

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