Remember Francesca Gino? She was the Harvard behavioural psychologist who did lots of research on honesty. She was exposed for rampant fraud and placed on academic leave, although she is now suing Harvard for defamation. We also recently saw Mark Tessier-Lavigne resign from his post as Stanford President, due to rampant fraud conducted under his watch. At least in his case the research wasn’t about honesty, but rather biology. But today it’s Deja Jew, as Dan Ariely, an Israeli-American behavioural economist and pop-sci writer, has been caught with, you guessed it, rampant fraud in his research into honesty. This story … Continue reading AcademiaLand: Another Honesty Researcher, (((Dan Arielly))), Exposed for Rampant Fraud