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In 2020, I wrote a post on a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that politicians who are averse to lying have lower reelection rates. In other words, politicians who are less honest are more likely to do well in politics. In brief, I found that the results in […]

Source: Figure 1 in Giorgi et al. (2022)

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It is getting increasingly popular within the social sciences to preregister studies. That is, prior to collecting any data for a study, researchers register their theoretical predictions/expectations (i.e., hypothesis or hypotheses), the data collection procedure, the planned analysis, etc. I am generally in favour of preregistrations. All else equal, more information on how a study […]

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