ABSTRACT
The standards included in this chapter explain that research must be conducted according to local laws and regulations and only after formal approval by an institutional review board. Behavior analyst researchers always obtain informed consent from participants and a second informed consent to publish the data. Protecting the confidentiality of research participants is a high priority, as is preventing any accidental sharing of their information. Before undertaking independent research, researchers should have completed a thesis or dissertation. Those who undertake such projects should know that they are responsible for any ethical problems that arise due to their assistants. Researchers have a particular responsibility to disclose any conflicts of interest (whether financial or service related) that they might have. When authorship is to be determined, behavior analyst researchers give appropriate credit to all contributors. Researchers do not copy and use someone else’s work and present it as their own. Researchers follow the required standards for storing and destroying raw data. Finally, behavior analyst researchers always truthfully report their results.
