The Harvard Expert on Dishonesty Who Is Accused of Lying

Updated at 3:05 p.m. on July 7, 2023

When behavioral-science researchers are accused of misbehavior, the allegations of being a little on the nose. The former Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser, author of , was to have fabricated data and manipulated results. The University of Michigan psychologist Lawrence Sanna, who judgment and decision making, resigned after facing similar allegations. Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist whose work touched on such topics as selfishness and morality, fabricated data , making him “.” And last month, Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School professor who studies dishonesty—and who wrote a book titled —was accused of falsifying data in at least four papers, three of which are on their way to being . Her accusers now that Gino, who has been placed on administrative leave from Harvard, may have faked data in dozens of