Competence threat in peer review: Subjectively perceived competence moderates the impact of objective competence indicators on the severity of a reviewer's rejection

Diplôme Master Competence threat in peer review: Subjectively perceived competence moderates the impact of objective competence indicators on the severity of a reviewer's rejection eng 2015 author Corrodi Véronique Charlotte 803570 director Mugny Gabriel 24758 Although peer review is an important tool in the construction of scientific knowledge, its validity often gets criticized and the understanding of possible underlying mechanisms biasing rejection decisions is limited. It is proposed in the present study, that scientists perceiving oppositional scientific opinions as incompatible might experience a competence threat when reviewing an article representing perspectives diverging from their own. In consequence, these scientists would reject such articles more severely in order to prevent a possible competence loss. The hypothesis that participants reject merely equally high competent peers' participations in an advanced internship the more severely the higher they feel competent in a negatively interdependent comparison context, was corroborated only when taking into account the subjectively felt competence in the pure lie detection task... Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 600 Groupe de recherche sur l'influence sociale (GRIS) 29064720-bb1c-4d79-854e-050bd85187fb Master thesis Private Mémoire Veronique Charlotte Corrodi.pdf 1352327 application/pdf closedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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