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Principle versus Practice: The Institutionalisation of Ethics and Research on the Far Right
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Antonia Vaughan – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
Institutional ethics review procedures aim -- in principle -- to minimise harm and evaluate risks, providing an important space to consider the safety of participants and researchers. However, literature has questioned the effectiveness of the process, particularly for reviewing 'risky' topics in a risk-averse environment. This article reports the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Experiments, Research Methodology, Ethics
The Quest for Significance: Attitude Adaption to a Radical Group Following Social Exclusion
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Bäck, Emma A.; Bäck, Hanna; Altermark, Niklas; Knapton, Holly – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2018
It is a human fundamental to desire to be valued, loved and respected--to be significant. Social exclusion induce significance loss which elicits a 'quest for significance'--the search for opportunities to re-gain significance. The present article establishes this relation in a laboratory experiment (N = 71, mean age = 28, SD = 10.42, 65% women,…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Laboratory Experiments, Attitude Change, Rejection (Psychology)