Fraud and failure. It's been a rough couple of weeks.
Sep 15, 2021
The field of behavioural economics has been knocked around a couple of times over the past week or so..
Perhaps most significantly, news broke of a research study on fraud being found to have used fraudulent data. Yes, painfully ironic.
The 2012 study by Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely and Bazerman found getting people to sign their name at the top of a form rather than the end increased the likelihood theyā€™d complete the form honestly.
Such an interesting finding doesnā€™t stay quiet for long, and th...
