Francesca Gino was a star business professor at the Ivy League college.
However, Gino was stripped of her title in disgrace this past week after Harvard administrators informed business faculty of their decision, GHB reported.
An investigation into her work was launched in 2023, as Slay News reported at the time.
The scandal emerged after a trio of data bloggers – Uri Simonsohn, Leif Nelson, and Joe Simmons – presented what they said was evidence of academic fraud in four studies co-authored by Gino.
They noted that they also “believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data.”
Her behavioral research studies relating to cheating, lying, and dishonesty received widespread media coverage over the past decade.
However, questions about her work first emerged regarding a 2012 study she co-authored. The study purported to show that making people sign an honesty pledge at the beginning of a form, rather than the end, increases honest responses.
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