Plagiarism In Psychology

The ethical dilemma reported in this example relates to the proprietary rights of professionally written material in that an expert in a specialty area of psychology was entrusted to review and assess a manuscript written by a newer psychologist. Along with providing the new practitioner with very critical and somewhat disparaging feedback on the piece, the expert also recommended not submit the manuscript for publishing as well. Almost a year later, however, the newer psychologist ran across an article in publishing that was reportedly written by the expert, although a large portion of the writing had clearly been plagiarized from the exact same manuscript the expert reviewed so harshly (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2016). Not surprisingly, the conduct of the expert in this case example discernably violates a number of standards of the APA (2010) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. According to Standard 8.11, plagiarism
If, for some reason, the new psychologist is uncomfortable with this option, however, the only other thing they could do is to report the plagiarism to either the ethics or licensing board for further investigation. In the off chance that the plagiarism was, in fact, accidental (although that seems highly unlikely in this case) than the expert psychologist could also issue a revision to the publication which could reflect the publication credit that the newer psychologist rightly deserves. It would also be advisable for the expert to write an apology for her actions as well. Considering the low probability of repetitive material, though, the expert more than likely took advantage of her position and authority because she figured the new psychologist was an easy