Institutional review boards in applied settings: their role in judgments of quality and consumer protection

Article Abstract:

R. Rosenthal believes that university institutional review boards (IRBs) should decline proposed studies of poor quality and use a cost/utility ratio to evaluate studies. Non-university IRBs already conduct reviews similar to those proposed by Rosenthal for the protection of consumers who may be research subjects. IRBs in applied backgrounds take care of fewer proposals with a much smaller range of research and have a membership of experienced individuals in the concerned field. IRBs also take care of consumer requirements in a better way than editorial board members of various professional journals. Some examples of meritless research proposals are given.

Methods, Consumer protection

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Long- and short-looking infants' recognition of symmetrical and asymmetrical forms

Article Abstract:

Three experiments have generally supported the hypothesis that short-looking infants process symmetrical stimuli more rapidly than asymmetrical stimuli, while this is not the case with long-looking infants. Short-looking infants successfully encode both vertically symmetrical and asymmetrical stimuli after 20 seconds of familiarization, while long-looking infants usually require a longer familiarization time before encoding either stimulus. It appears that short-looking infants may have used a global-to-local sequence in processing the stimuli.

Research, Visual perception

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Cost, utility, and judgments of institutional review boards

Article Abstract:

R. Rosenthal's concerns about the scientific merit and ethical treatment of human subjects in psychological research are reasonable as is his linking of costs and utility. However, his choice of institutional review boards to carry out this pre-review simply because they already perform a similar function is fraught with difficulties including unfamiliarity with the validity of innovative research and the strong potential for political and other agendas to influence the decisions.

Science and ethics, Scientific ethics

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