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Re:Is there any truth in truth serums? (2015) by mgraczyk on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:50PM (#22144306)
You should check out his more recent work. Your reply is pretty ironic given that his focus has been studying the prevalence of "questionable research practices" and how to detect and avoid them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22508865/

Here are some interesting papers in that direction at least partly inspired or building on Prelec's work.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1958824.1958865

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251931...

https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI12/paper/viewPap...

Re:Is there any truth in truth serums? (2015) by _k3ok on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:30PM (#22144688)
The first paper you mention (on measuring the prevalence of questionable research practices with incentives for truth telling) was especially timely since 2012 was one year after Drazen's program with the defense contracting partner was reported to federal prosecutors for misconduct.

By the way, not at all surprised that the paper found such a high rate of dishonesty in psychological research. After all, Drazen earned his PhD in the same department at Harvard University where now-disgraced evolutionary biologist Marc Hauser was forced to resign after admitting to fabricating data, manipulating experimental results, and publishing falsified findings.

The defense contractor considered hiring Hauser as a consultant on a different problem not long before it was reported in the news that his office had been raided by authorities:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/education/14harvard.html

The defense contractor unfortunately didn't act fast enough, because based on an investigation into that program, Hauser would have probably fit right in! Ironic too that Hauser was also the author of a popular best-seller entitled Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong :)

At the time of the raid, Hauser was already well known to students on the Harvard campus on account of his support for this salacious Harvard first:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/13/highereducatio...