René Bekkers, March 21, 2025. At the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, research integrity is governed by eight policies: The overarching policy is the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity adopted by the Royal Academy of Arts &

In the social sciences it is increasingly common to preregister hypotheses, research designs and analysis plans before a study is conducted (Ferguson et al., 2023). Because the time-stamp on the preregistration documents when the ideas for the study were deposited, a preregistration is an intellectual honesty device.

To what extent does the accumulation of wealth reduce feelings of responsibility for society and behavioral manifestations of generosity, such as charitable giving and bequeathing? Since 2003, the level of generosity of the Dutch population, defined as the proportion of resources donated to charitable causes, has declined by about 40% (Bekkers, Gouwenberg, Koolen-Maas &

It’s one of those days – at 13.25 I have not yet worked on any of the main tasks I envisioned for myself. Where did all the time go this morning? I do know that I handled a lot of messages I received through e-mail. I can even feel a little satisfaction about having cleared away the clutter in my inbox.

If you’re using the Qualtrics platform to collect data, in most cases you will not need the exact IP address or geolocation data such as longitude and latitude coordinates. As a rule, you don’t want to collect personal information that you do not need. But did you know that the default setting on the platform is to collect this type of information nonetheless?

The distinction between ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’ sub-communities aligns with the self-identities of many researchers in the social sciences. In my experience advocating for open science in multi-method environments these identities create polarization.

The social sciences and humanities have a high level of epistemic diversity: they harbor different research traditions, with a wide variety of types of empirical data, methods of analysis, philosophies of knowledge, and epistemologies in their approaches to knowledge creation. Here I’d like to share experiences trying to enhance transparency as a common objective in two environments with high epistemic diversity.

Dear editor, As you will recall, I recently replied to your invitation to review #[JRNL-YY-NUMBER] for your journal with the request to provide access to the data and code the authors used to produce results reported in the manuscript. Unfortunately, you have not yet agreed to ask the authors of this manuscript to provide access. Please do so at your earliest convenience. There is no need to log onto my Journal Editor Manager system.

In all likelihood, you also get numerous requests to review articles, contribute articles to special issues, compile or edit a special issue, or even to join an editorial board. Recently colleagues asked me how to deal with such requests. Most of these requests come from predatory publishers such as SCIRP, MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.

Do people give more if they are reminded of the social norm to give? Several experiments among students show that explicit reminders with texts such as “Do the right thing” lead to more cooperation in social dilemmas (Dal Bó & Dal Bó, 2014; Capraro & Vanzo, 2019). There is also evidence that moral norms in crowdfunding campaigns can lead to more giving behavior (Capraro & Vanzo, 2019; Van Teunenbroek, Bekkers &

What are the motivations and obstacles for charitable giving? Depending on the research design, there are two perspectives from which we can think about answers to this question.