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Asked by anon-188700 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 5 Nov 2018.
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Warren Mansell answered on 5 Nov 2018:
Not directly, but its hard when you get a harsh review from a reviewer of a journal article that you want to get published!
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Alex Reid answered on 5 Nov 2018:
I second Warren’s answer, publication can be hard as other scientists look at your work and decide if it gets the go-ahead to get printed (this is called peer review).
In terms of running experiments no one has tried to stop me, but most if not all psychologists have to stick to very clear ethical guidelines when we run experiments (i.e. nothing that would make the participant uncomfortable). We also have to be prepared to stop the experiment at any time if the participant decides they no longer want to continue for any reason. This has not happened to me yet, but it has happened to other researchers I know.
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Nadine Mirza answered on 5 Nov 2018:
No one ever tried to full on ban me. I do remember, after my master’s, while my family is and have always been very encouraging, for a while they kind of wanted me to move back to Pakistan. At the time they didn’t think a PhD was the best option, they missed me, they worried about me being so far from them. So they used to question me a lot, insisting I come back. But, once they saw it was making me happy and I showed them the work I was doing, they realised how important it was and they have done nothing but support me. Sometimes they’re more enthusiastic about the work than I am!
Outside of my immediate family (super super far away extended family and gossipy acquaintances) there have been people who have told me or my parents I was becoming “too educated” for a girl or that “no one would want to marry me” and that my being so far from my family was not right in “our culture” and I should go back. This was all nonsense (and hella rude!) and they all got shamed big time by my awesome grandma (I call her Dadi- she is the coolest).
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Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:
Mmm. not directly, but there are always scientists who have their favourite theories or research questions and if you tell them that those questions are not extremely in line with the latest research, they can take it personally, and be overly critical of your research or that from “your area”. Also, as in every area of human activity, people have their personal animosies that can sometimes translate into them gossiping about the people they don’t like, also from the point of view of their professional competences, what can limit opportunities to the person talked about.. but that’s typical for any profession.
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