Article Accepted Manuscript

"Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid": Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Bou Zeineddine, Fouad
Saab, Rim
Lášticová, Barbara
Ayanian, Arin
Kende, Anna

Abstract / Description

This paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N=232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research--including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities.

Keyword(s)

social psychology research practices precarity inequality coloniality social science academia

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Date of first publication

2022-05-30

Journal title

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

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PsychArchives

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acceptedVersion

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Bou Zeineddine, F., Saab, R., Lášticová, B., Ayanian, A., & Kende, A. (in press). "Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid": Global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research [Accepted manuscript]. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6893
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Bou Zeineddine, Fouad
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Saab, Rim
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Lášticová, Barbara
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Ayanian, Arin
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Kende, Anna
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    2022-05-30T18:20:49Z
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    2022-05-30T18:20:49Z
  • Date of first publication
    2022-05-30
  • Abstract / Description
    This paper offers an exploration of research production in social psychology as a global endeavor from the point of view of Anglophone social psychologists (N=232) across 64 countries. We examine social psychologists’ beliefs regarding the difficulties in conducting research in social psychology and the inequalities that they report between the Global North, South and East Europe, and the Global South. Across all regions, we found pervasive critical awareness of obstacles to conducting research--including underinvestment in the field, precarious and counter-productive labor conditions, and excessive and biased disciplinary standards. However, we also found that colleagues outside the Global North reported quantitatively and qualitatively larger obstacles to research. These included well-known historically-rooted inequalities but also contemporary systemic procedural and distributive injustices in material, human, and social-political capital. Non-Northern colleagues in particular critically reflected on how these inequalities and injustices are amplified by Northern hegemonies in social, institutional, disciplinary, economic, and political systems. Discussion focuses on the implications of these results for social psychologists, social psychology as a discipline, and its situation within broader hierarchical systems and their intersectionalities.
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  • Publication status
    acceptedVersion
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  • Review status
    reviewed
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  • Citation
    Bou Zeineddine, F., Saab, R., Lášticová, B., Ayanian, A., & Kende, A. (in press). "Unavailable, insecure, and very poorly paid": Global difficulties and inequalities in conducting social psychological research [Accepted manuscript]. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. http://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6893
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  • ISSN
    2195-3325
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/6205
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6893
  • Language of content
    eng
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  • Publisher
    PsychArchives
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  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.8311
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    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12442
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6887
  • Is related to
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12442
  • Keyword(s)
    social psychology
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  • Keyword(s)
    research practices
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    precarity
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    inequality
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    coloniality
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    social science
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    academia
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    "Unavailable, Insecure, and Very Poorly Paid": Global Difficulties and Inequalities in Conducting Social Psychological Research
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  • DRO type
    article
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  • Journal title
    Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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    PsychOpen GOLD
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    Accepted Manuscript
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