Beware 'persuasive communication devices' when writing and reading scientific articles

被引：11

作者：

Corneille, Olivier ^{[1
]}

Havemann, Jo ^{[2
]}

Henderson, Emma L. ^{[3
]}

IJzerman, Hans ^{[4
,5
]}

Hussey, Ian ^{[6
]}

de Xivry, Jean-Jacques Orban ^{[7
]}

Jussim, Lee ^{[8
]}

Holmes, Nicholas P. ^{[9
]}

Pilacinski, Artur ^{[6
]}

Beffara, Brice ^{[10
,11
]}

Carroll, Harriet ^{[12
,13
,14
]}

Outa, Nicholas Otieno ^{[15
]}

Lush, Peter ^{[16
]}

Lotter, Leon D. ^{[17
]}

机构：

[1] UCLouvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium

[2] Access 2 Perspect, Berlin, Germany

[3] Univ Surrey, Guildford, England

[4] Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

[5] Inst Univ France, Paris, France

[6] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Bochum, Germany

[7] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

[8] Rutgers State Univ, New Brunswick, NJ USA

[9] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, England

[10] Univ Nantes, Nantes, France

[11] Univ Angers, Angers, France

[12] Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden

[13] Univ Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

[14] NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, Scotland

[15] Maseno Univ, Kisumu, Kenya

[16] Univ Sussex, Brighton, England

[17] Res Ctr Julich, Julich, Germany

来源：

ELIFE | 2023年 / 12卷

关键词：

scientific writing; scientific publishing; citation; reporting; language; point of view; Human; HARKING;

D O I：

10.7554/eLife.88654

中图分类号：

Q [生物科学];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Authors rely on a range of devices and techniques to attract and maintain the interest of readers, and to convince them of the merits of the author's point of view. However, when writing a scientific article, authors must use these 'persuasive communication devices' carefully. In particular, they must be explicit about the limitations of their work, avoid obfuscation, and resist the temptation to oversell their results. Here we discuss a list of persuasive communication devices and we encourage authors, as well as reviewers and editors, to think carefully about their use.

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