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How assigning labels at work can delegitimize employees

Women who are seen as assertive can often be negatively labelled at work. Credit: Shutterstock Have you or a colleague ever been negatively labeled at work, whether it's based on your gender, age, race or ethnicity? Labels can often be mundane because we use them spontaneously on an everyday basis. But they can also be far from innocuous. Labels convey value judgments and serve to control the behavior of the people they're…

Study uncovers widespread unethical practice for assigning authorships to research papers

Distribution of authorship views across gender identification (shares based on predicted probabilities). Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280018 A recently published survey study of Ph.D. students reveals that an ethically questionable culture for assigning authorships to research papers is widespread within the medical and natural sciences across Europe.