Phys.org  June 27, 2023 Knowledge hiding in academia—the reluctance to share one’s ideas, materials, or knowledge with other researchers—is detrimental to scientific collaboration and harms scientific progress. In three studies, researchers in Germany tested whether (a) knowledge hiding could be predicted by researchers’ latent fear of being exploited (i.e., victim sensitivity), whether (b) this effect was mediated by researchers’ suspiciousness about their peers, and whether (c) activating researchers’ social identity alleviated or rather amplified this effect. Study 1 showed that victim-sensitive researchers whose social identity as a “researcher” had been made salient were particularly prone to knowledge hiding. Study 2 […]