Uri Simonsohn is a behavioral scientist at ESADE business school in Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Spain, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His substantive interest is in Judgment and Decision Making, and he is also a methodologist.
He is originally from Chile. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Universidad Católica de Chile, and his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in Social and Decision Sciences in 2003, and became a professor of Operations Management at the Wharton School where he stayed until 2017, leaving to move to ESADE Business School in Barcelona as a full professor.[1]
He has been involved in research on false-positives, p-hacking, experimental replication, and pre-registrations of research. He has contributed to identifying various cases of scientific fraud including the work of Dirk Smeesters, Lawrence Sanna, Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino.[2][3][4][5]
^"Faculty - Uri Simonsohn". www.esade.edu. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
^"Data detective makes his fraud-busting algorithm public : News blog". Blogs.nature.com. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
^"The statistical significance scandal: The standard error of science?". Bigthink.com. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
^Scheiber, Noam (2023-06-24). "Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
^Lee, Stephanie M. (2021-08-25). "A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out To Be Based On Fake Data". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
UriSimonsohn is a behavioral scientist at ESADE business school in Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, Spain, and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School...
called this putative form of unconscious attraction 'implicit egotism'. UriSimonsohn subsequently suggested that implicit egotism only applies to cases where...
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as their name. They called this unconscious power implicit egotism. UriSimonsohn suggested that implicit egotism only applies to cases where people are...
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549-551. Retrieved 30 September 2014 via Jstor (subscription required). Simonsohn, Uri (September 2006). "Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations...
Leadership Quarterly. 28 (1): 5–21. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2017.01.006. Simonsohn, Uri; Nelson, Leif D.; Simmons, Joseph P. (2014). "P-curve: A key to the...
Katherine S.; Chambers, Christopher D.; Sert, Nathalie Percie du; Simonsohn, Uri; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan; Ware, Jennifer J. (1 January 2017). "A manifesto...
Katherine S.; Chambers, Christopher D.; Percie du Sert, Nathalie; Simonsohn, Uri; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan; Ware, Jennifer J.; Ioannidis, John P. A. (10...
CiteSeerX 10.1.1.333.7742. doi:10.1257/aer.97.4.1217. JSTOR 30034090. Simonsohn, Uri (2010). "Weather To Go To College". The Economic Journal. 120 (543):...
April 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2017. Simmons, Joseph; Nelson, Leif; Simonsohn, Uri (2011). "False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data...