Orientation to Conflict of Interest and Commitment

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1. A conflict of interest is a subordination of the primary goal of academic research to seek and describe the truth to some other goal, typically a personal one.
   Yes No
2. Conflicts of interest always involve greed for money.
   Yes No
3. Financial conflicts of interest sometimes arise from the motives of the funding agency.
   Yes No
4. The duty to maintain the "public trust" is the responsibility of the funding agency, the research institution, as well as the researcher.
   Yes No
5. One form of conflict of interest may lead the researcher to inadvertently igNore or misinterpret research results.
   Yes No
6. Political partisanship can be a conflict of interests for some researchers, but Not necessarily all researchers.
   Yes No
7. A conflict of commitment usually occurs when the researcher has relationships with incompatible constituencies.
   Yes No
8. Dogmatism, a tenacious adherence to a a theory or hypothesis, can result in a common form of conflict of interest.
   Yes No
9. Every CSU Long Beach employee seeking grant or contract funds from external sources must sign an internal clearance form within which they indicate whether or Not they have a relevant financial interest that exceeds a certain dollar amount.
   Yes No
10. The State of California Fair Political Practices Commission oversees financial conflicts of interest in grants and contracts.
    Yes No

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