Obesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post-Soviet Countries

This is definitely from the well that’s weird file. But there may be something in it as a universal rule. Abstract We collected 299 frontal face images of 2017 cabinet ministers from 15 post-Soviet states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). For each image, the…

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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty

If this isn’t the definition of irony I don’t know what is….. In 2012, Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely, and Bazerman published a three-study paper in PNAS (.htm) reporting that dishonesty can be reduced by asking people to sign a statement of honest intent before providing information (i.e., at the top of a document) rather than after providing information (i.e.,…

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