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Always beware these type of Social Science studies that make for great popsci headlines.

The kind of result that makes careers: seemingly elegant and simple study design, common sense hypothesis and overall great marketability.

Diederik Stapel was one of the largest science fraudster in history and this kind of stuff was his bread and butter. More recently Francesca Gino was caught falsifying the data of the "honesty pledge at the top of form" that is highly similar in concept to this.

Now for the career-ending question: Will it replicate?




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