163. The Data Sleuth Taking on Shoddy ScienceUri Simonsohn is a behavioral science professor who wants to improve standards in his field — so he’s made a sideline of investigating fraudulent academic research. He tells Steve Levitt, who's spent plenty of time rooting out cheaters in other fields, how he does it.
SOURCES:Uri Simonsohn • , professor of behavioral science at Esade Business School.
RESOURCES: • "
Gino v. President and Fellows of Harvard College • ,"
(Court Listener, • 2025).
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Statement from Dan Ariely • ," (2024).
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Data Falsificada (Part 4): 'Forgetting The Words • ,'" by Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, and Joe Simmons
(Data Colada, • 2023).
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They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? • " by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
(The New Yorker, • 2023).
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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty • ," by Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, and Joe Simmons
(Data Colada, • 2023).
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Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient anddecreases dishonest self-reports in comparison tosigning at the end • ," by Lisa Shu, Nina Mazar, Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max Bazerman
(PNAS, • 2021).
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Power Posing: Reassessing The Evidence Behind The Most Popular TED Talk • ," by Uri Simonsohn and Joe Simmons
(Data Colada • , 2015).
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Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are • ," by Amy Cuddy
(TED, • 2012).
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Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgment from 10 Years of MBA-Admission Interviews • ," by Uri Simohnson and Francesa Gino
(Psychological Science, • 2012).
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Spurious? Name similarity effects (implicit egotism) in marriage, job, and moving decisions • ," by Uri Simohnson
(Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, • 2011).
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False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant • ," by Joe Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simohnson
(Psychological Science, • 2011).
EXTRAS: • "
Will We Solve the Climate Problem? • " by
People I (Mostly) Admire • (2025).
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Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? • " by
Freakonomics Radio • (2024).
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When I'm Sixty Four • ," by The Beatles (1967).
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