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In 2022, Rutgers University researchers Lee Jussim and Nate Honeycutt were subjected to three separate IRB audits involving previously approved survey studies about political attitudes and the climate in higher education. The reviews were initiated after the Rutgers IRB received complaints alleging …
Ron Roberts conducted a number of studies on students at his institution engaging in sex work. After one pilot study was published and garnered media attention, he received notification from university administrators expressing concern over how this research might reflect poorly on …
An investigator at a large U.S. university was funded to conduct a study of psychosocial responses to the trauma of human rights abuses in a developing country outside the U.S. The investigator, a physician in the medical school, was required by the …
A researcher and his student submitted an IRB application for a simple survey about perceptions of incarcerated individuals. The questionnaire contained new questions the student had created specifically for this study (the topic was fairly specific and no existing measures were usable). …