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[98] Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty

Posted on August 17, 2021April 23, 2022 by Uri, Joe, & Leif

This post is co-authored with a team of researchers who have chosen to remain anonymous. They uncovered most of the evidence reported in this post. These researchers are not connected in any way to the papers described herein. *** In 2012, Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely, and Bazerman published a three-study paper in PNAS (.htm) reporting…

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[97] Data Replicada #10: Does Goal Conflict Affect Time Spent on Work and Leisure?

Posted on May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 by Joe & Leif

In the tenth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JMR) article entitled, “Goal Conflict Encourages Work and Discourages Leisure” (.htm). The article’s two key hypotheses are right there in the title: People who are faced with a goal conflict are (1) more likely to…

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[96] Madam Speaker: Are Female Presenters Treated Worse in Econ Seminars?

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 by Uri Simonsohn

A recent NBER paper titled "Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars" (.htm) reports analyses of audience questions asked during 462 economics seminars, concluding that “women are asked more questions . . . and the questions asked of women are more likely to be patronizing or hostile . . . suggest[ing] yet another potential explanation…

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[95] Groundhog: Addressing The Threat That R Poses To Reproducible Research

Posted on January 5, 2021June 26, 2023 by Uri Simonsohn

R, the free and open source program for statistical computing, poses a substantial threat to the reproducibility of published research. This post explains the problem and introduces a solution. The Problem: Packages R itself has some reproducibility problems (see example in this footnote [1]), but the big problem is its packages: the addon scripts that…

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[94] Data Replicada #9: Are Progression Ads More Credible?

Posted on December 3, 2020December 2, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the ninth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) article entitled, “Advertising a Desired Change: When Process Simulation Fosters (vs. Hinders) Credibility and Persuasion” (.htm). Some products, such as weight loss programs, exist to help consumers attain a desired change. In this paper,…

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[93] ResearchBox: Open Research Made Easy

Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 by Uri, Joe, & Leif

This post introduces ResearchBox, a new platform for easily sharing data, code, materials, and pre-registrations. With a design and approach similar to AsPredicted, ResearchBox simplifies, standardizes, and organizes supporting materials for publishable research. Compared to the current leading platform, the OSF, ResearchBox is narrowly designed to make it easy for authors to share data, code,…

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[92] Data Replicada #8: Is The Left-Digit Bias Stronger When Prices Are Presented Side-By-Side?

Posted on October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the eighth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) article entitled, “The Left-Digit Bias: When and Why Are Consumers Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?” (.htm). In this paper, the authors offer insight into a previously documented observation known as the left-digit bias, whereby…

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[91] p-hacking fast and slow: Evaluating a forthcoming AER paper deeming some econ literatures less trustworthy

Posted on September 15, 2020August 16, 2021 by Uri Simonsohn

The authors of a forthcoming AER article (.pdf), "Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics", painstakingly harvested thousands of test results from 25 economics journals to answer an interesting question: Are studies that use some research designs more trustworthy than others? In this post I will explain why I think their…

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[90] Data Replicada #7: Does Displaying Multiple Copies of a Product Increase Its Perceived Effectiveness?

Posted on August 18, 2020August 14, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In the seventh installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “Product Entitativity: How the Presence of Product Replicates Increases Perceived and Actual Product Efficacy” (.html). In this paper, the authors propose that “presenting multiple product replicates as a group (vs. presenting a…

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[89] Data Replicada #6: The Problem of (Weird) Differential Attrition

Posted on July 21, 2020July 22, 2020 by Joe & Leif

In this sixth installment of Data Replicada, we report our attempt to replicate a recently published Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) article entitled, “The Impact of Resource Scarcity on Price-Quality Judgments” (.html). This one was full of surprises. The primary thesis of this article is straightforward: “Scarcity decreases consumers’ tendency to use price to judge…

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