Researchers conducted a preregistered, high-powered direct replication of experiment 1 from the 2012 PNAS paper on signing location and honesty, and failed to replicate the original result.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by the peer-reviewed PNAS paper itself, corroborated by PubMed, PMC full text, journalistic reporting (BuzzFeed News), and a co-authored Scientific American op-ed. [tier=gold indep_score=0.925 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Signing at the Beginning Versus at the End Does Not Decrease ... (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1911695117 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132248/ (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32179683/ (corroboration)
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/dan-ariely-honesty-study-retraction (corroboration)
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/when-were-wrong-its-our-responsibility-as-scientists-to-say-so/ (corroboration)