TY - JOUR
T1 - A Comparison of the Effects of Ethics Training on International and US Students
AU - Steele, Logan M.
AU - Johnson, James F.
AU - Watts, Logan L.
AU - MacDougall, Alexandra E.
AU - Mumford, Michael D.
AU - Connelly, Shane
AU - Lee Williams, T. H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - As scientific and engineering efforts become increasingly global in nature, the need to understand differences in perceptions of research ethics issues across countries and cultures is imperative. However, investigations into the connection between nationality and ethical decision-making in the sciences have largely generated mixed results. In Study 1 of this paper, a measure of biases and compensatory strategies that could influence ethical decisions was administered. Results from this study indicated that graduate students from the United States and international graduate students studying in the US are prone to different biases. Based on these findings, recommendations are made for developing ethics education interventions to target these decision-making biases. In Study 2, we employed an ethics training intervention based on ethical sensemaking and used a well-established measure of ethical decision-making that more fully captures the content of ethical judgment. Similar to Study 1, the results obtained in this study suggest differences do exist between graduate students from the US and international graduate students in ethical decision-making prior to taking the research ethics training. However, similar effects were observed for both groups following the completion of the ethics training intervention.
AB - As scientific and engineering efforts become increasingly global in nature, the need to understand differences in perceptions of research ethics issues across countries and cultures is imperative. However, investigations into the connection between nationality and ethical decision-making in the sciences have largely generated mixed results. In Study 1 of this paper, a measure of biases and compensatory strategies that could influence ethical decisions was administered. Results from this study indicated that graduate students from the United States and international graduate students studying in the US are prone to different biases. Based on these findings, recommendations are made for developing ethics education interventions to target these decision-making biases. In Study 2, we employed an ethics training intervention based on ethical sensemaking and used a well-established measure of ethical decision-making that more fully captures the content of ethical judgment. Similar to Study 1, the results obtained in this study suggest differences do exist between graduate students from the US and international graduate students in ethical decision-making prior to taking the research ethics training. However, similar effects were observed for both groups following the completion of the ethics training intervention.
KW - Ethical decision-making
KW - Ethics training
KW - Moral judgment
KW - Nationality
KW - RCR
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U2 - 10.1007/s11948-015-9678-5
DO - 10.1007/s11948-015-9678-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 26156891
AN - SCOPUS:84936889058
SN - 1353-3452
VL - 22
SP - 1217
EP - 1244
JO - Science and Engineering Ethics
JF - Science and Engineering Ethics
IS - 4
ER -