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.
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- Signing at the Beginning Versus at the End Does Not Decrease ... (hks.harvard.edu)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1911695117 (pnas.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132248/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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