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SUBMITTER: Markowitz DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143312 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Markowitz David M DM Hancock Jeffrey T JT
PloS one 20140825 8
When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception? In this study, we investigated the linguistic patterns of fraudulent (N = 24; 170,008 words) and genuine publications (N = 25; 189,705 words) first-authored by social psychologist Diederik Stapel. The analysis revealed that Stapel's fraudulent papers contained linguistic changes in science-related discourse dimensions, including more terms pertaining to methods, investigation, and certainty than his genuine ...[more]