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Published In
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2023
Subjects
Neurodiversity -- Ethics
Abstract
Research focusing on neurodiversityFootnote1 is critical for including all marginalized populations in the organizational diversity literature and for promoting theoretical innovation. It is imperative that such research models the ethics of inclusion (Gowen et al., Reference Gowen, Taylor, Bleazard, Greenstein, Baimbridge and Poole2019; Nicolaidis et al., Reference Nicolaidis, Raymaker, Kapp, Baggs, Ashkenazy, McDonald, Weiner, Maslak, Hunter and Joyce2019). Despite positive intent, majority group researchers have historically produced biased scholarship on novel marginalized populations (Colella et al., Reference Colella, Hebl and King2017). As all research includes some subjective bias, neurotypical researchers are likely to publish information that further marginalizes neurodivergentFootnote2 people as they inherently do not have the lived experience of being neurodivergent themselves. Researchers should include the perspectives of the members of the populations they are conducting research on and aim to support neurodivergent voices. We recommend that researchers (a) include neurodivergent research team membersFootnote3 when researching neurodiversity and (b) strengthen the marginalized participant impact on research findings through methods like qualitative and participatory action research, especially if including neurodivergent research team members is not feasible despite legitimate attempts to do so.
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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DOI
10.1017/iop.2022.100
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40126
Citation Details
Bernard, L., Fox, S., Kulason, K., Phanphackdy, A., Kahle, X., Martinez, L., ... & Smith, N. A. (2023). Not your “typical” research: Inclusion ethics in neurodiversity scholarship. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 16(1), 50-54.