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The results of over a hundred research papers published across three institutions are in question as investigators examine the work of Diederik Stapel, one of the Netherlands' rising stars of social psychology.
"People are in shock," Gerben van Kleef, a social psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, told ScienceInsider. "Everybody wonders how this could have happened and at this proportion."
Already 30 papers have been found to contain falsified data, according to Nature. A report issued by Tilburg University, Stapel's employer, includes investigations from University of Groningen and the University of Amsterdam, where Stapel worked previously.
After conducting interviews with dozens of Stapel's students and collaborators, the committee found that Stapel would discuss experiments he claimed he had done earlier or via a network of ...
