Adjunct Associate Professor of Behavioral Science | University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Social psychology etc.
Along with many other psychologists, I’ve been closely following (and participating in) the ongoing discussion about finding ways to effectively improve the shortcomings in our field’s research methods. Given that the Stapel fraud case was an important spark to these discussions, I read Yudhijit Bhattacharjee’s article, The Mind of a Con Man, in this week’s New York Times Magazine with great interest.
Read MoreAn update on Simonsohn's recently posted paper in which I discuss one of the techniques used to confirm Simonsohn's suspicions of fraud. The results of the analysis make it clear that the data was not generated by real subjects.
Read MoreUri Simonsohn's "secret" paper describing the analyses he used to detect fraud in the Dirk Smeesters and Larry Sanna cases has now been submitted for publication and is available on SSRN. Simonsohn explains the analyses he used to detect and confirm the fraud and calls on journals to make the publication of raw data their default policy.
Read More- The Guardian
July 24, 2014
P. Thagard and A.D Nussbaum (2014). Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 43-53.
- The New York Times
May 1st, 2015