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Title Groupthink in science : greed, pathological altruism, ideology, competition, and culture / David M. Allen, James W. Howell, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Part I. Introduction : Definition, manifestations, and theoretical issues -- Part II. Manipulation and use of social Influence in science : The financing, design, and dissemination of research studies and results -- Part III. Examples and personal experiences
Summary This book discusses one of the hottest topics in science today, i.e., the concern over certain problematic practices within the scientific enterprise. It raises questions and, more importantly, begins to supply answers about one particularly widespread phenomenon that sometimes impedes scientific progress: group processes. The book looks at many problematic manifestations of "going along with the crowd" that are adopted at the expense of truth. Closely related is the concept of pathological altruism or altruism bias--the tendency of scientists to bias their research in order to further the ideological or financial interests of an "in-group" at the expense of both the interest of other groups as well as the truth. The book challenges the widespread notion that science is invariably a benevolent, benign process. It defines the scientific enterprise, in practice as opposed to in theory, as a cultural system designed to produce factual knowledge. In effect, the book offers a broad and unique take on an important and incompletely explored subject: research and academic discourse that sacrifices scientific objectivity, and perhaps even the scientists own ethical standards, in order to further the goals of a particular group of researchers or reinforce their shared belief system or their own interests, whether economic, ideological, or bureaucratic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 11, 2022)
Subject Science -- Psychological aspects
Science -- Decision making
Medicine: general issues.
Sociology.
Psychotherapy.
Health psychology.
Medical -- General.
Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
Psychology -- Psychotherapy -- General.
Psychology -- Applied Psychology.
Science -- Decision making
Science -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Allen, David M., 1949- editor.
Howell, James W., editor
ISBN 9783030368227
303036822X