Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-09T10:01:40 RDF description of Normative dissonance in science: results from a national survey of U.S. scientists J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn37993 <p>Norms of behavior in scientific research represent ideals to which most scientists subscribe. Our analysis of the extent of dissonance between these widely espoused ideals and scientists' perceptions of their own and others' behavior is based on survey responses from 3,247 mid- and early-career scientists who had research funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. We found substantial normative dissonance, particularly between espoused ideals and respondents' perceptions of other scientists' typical behavior. Also, respondents on average saw other scientists' behavior as more counternormative than normative. Scientists' views of their fields as cooperative or competitive were associated with their normative perspectives, with competitive fields showing more counternormative behavior. The high levels of normative dissonance documented here represent a persistent source of stress in science.<p> document-rn37993 Questionnaires 2024-10-31T23:13:42.423-05:00 Behavior 2 4 Normative dissonance in science: results from a national survey of U.S. scientists J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics Ethics Research Support 23135 public 39910