Inside an Academic Scandal
A Story of Fraud and Betrayal
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- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
How fraud in a published paper about honesty roiled the world of social science.
In 2012, Max Bazerman, along with four coauthors, published an influential paper showing that “signing first”—that is, promising to tell the truth before filling out a form—produced greater honesty than signing afterward. In 2021, academic sleuths revealed that two of the experiments in the paper were fraudulent, triggering what would become one of the most significant academic frauds of the twenty-first …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049887 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262049880 |
| Author: | Max H. Bazerman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Readers will find a well-written, clear, and direct account of a scientific fiasco that is still unfolding.”
—Science
“In his new book, Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal, Max Bazerman describes how his team’s buzzy discovery — that making people sign honesty pledges before filling out paperwork really did make them more honest — didn’t hold up under testing…Bazerman’s book details the fallout of the scandal and, most intriguingly, how good scientists can become complicit in bad science.”
—The Boston Globe
”[A] wake-up call for behavioral scientists and the broader academic community.”
—GBH News
“Academic fraud is seldom as openly discussed as it is in this absorbing book.”
—Nature
About The Author
Max H. Bazerman
Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including Complicit- How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Max’s awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of London (London Business School), the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute, and the Distinguished Scholar Award, the Distinguished Educator Award, and the Organizational Behavior Division’s Life Achievement Award from the Academy of Management. Max’s consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in thirty-two countries.
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