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How Social Scientists, and the Rest of Us, Got Seduced By a Good Story

Academic Fraud

Neat stories are too good to be true. True stories are too boring to sell.

Almost two years ago, the field of social psychology was rocked by some astounding news: Diederik Stapel, one of its stars, had been faking his research.

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