Does exonerating an accused researcher restore the researcher's credibility?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Greitemeyer, Tobias ^a   Sagioglou, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUSED RESEARCHER; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY HEIGHT; CHARACTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EXONERATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NORMAL HUMAN; POST EXONERATION ATTITUDE; PRE EXONERATION ATTITUDE; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCHER CREDIBILITY; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL BELIEF; UNCORRECTED ACCUSATION; ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ADULT; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84929376794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126316     Document Type: Article

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