Francesca Gino

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Shu; Mazar; Gino; Ariely; Bazerman (2012). "Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient…". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 109 (38): 15197–15300. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209746109 . PMC   3458378 . PMID   22927408. (Retracted, see doi:10.1073/pnas.2115397118, PMID   34518237,  Retraction Watch)
  • Gino; Kouchaki; Galinsky (2015). "The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of Immorality and Impurity". Psychological Science . 26 (7): 983–996. doi:10.1177/0956797615575277. PMID   25963614. (Retracted, see doi:10.1177/09567976231187596, PMID   37409891)
  • Gino; Wiltermuth (2014). "Evil Genius? How Dishonesty Can Lead to Greater Creativity". Psychological Science . 25 (4): 973–981. doi:10.1177/0956797614520714. PMID   24549296. (Retracted, see doi:10.1177/09567976231187595, PMID   37409890)
  • Gino; Kouchaki; Casciaro (2020). "Why Connect? Moral Consequences of Networking with a Promotion or Prevention Focus". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 119 (6): 1221–1238. doi:10.1037/pspa0000226. PMID   32551743. (Retracted, see doi:10.1037/pspa0000351, PMID   37589685)
  • The first of these papers had already been retracted due to an unrelated data issue involving Dan Ariely, also uncovered by Data Colada. The other three papers were retracted in response to Harvard's investigation.

    Defamation lawsuit

    Gino subsequently filed a defamation suit against Harvard, Harvard Business School Dean Srikant Datar, and the three data investigators of Data Colada for $25 million, alleging that they had conspired to damage her reputation with false accusations and that the penalties against her amounted to gender-based discrimination under Title IX. [4] Gino denied having falsified data, and accused Harvard and the Data Colada team of having "worked together to destroy my career and reputation despite admitting they have no evidence proving their allegations." [15]

    The lawsuit raised concerns about chilling effects. Open science proponent Simine Vazire raised over $370,000 to help cover the legal fees of Data Colada. [21] [22]

    On October 10, 2023, Harvard University and Dean Datar filed a motion to partially dismiss the lawsuit, "citing the need for the University to have autonomy in its academic decision-making" (according to The Harvard Crimson ). [23] On November 8, 2023, the Data Colada defendants filed a motion to dismiss the claims against them, contending that Gino's lawsuit does not meet the pleading standards for a viable defamation action. [24]

    As part of its motion to partially dismiss, Harvard submitted its internal 1200-page report as evidence. [19] Initially it was kept under seal, but the university as well as The New Yorker and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed motions to make it public, which were opposed by Francesca Gino's lawyers, who filed a motion to keep the report from the public. [25] In March 2024, judge Myong J. Joun ruled to unseal it (with some redactions) as a judicial record "to which there exists a presumptive right of public access." [19] In the view of Vox journalist Kelsey Piper, the unsealed document "makes the allegations of Gino’s misconduct look more warranted than ever." [26]

    On September 11, 2024, the judge dismissed all of Gino's claims against the Data Colada defendants (defamation and other claims), and dismissed Gino's defamation and certain other claims (such as violation of privacy) against the Harvard University defendants, while allowing some breach of contract claims against Harvard to continue. [27] [28]

    Many Co-Authors Project

    Following the revelations by Harvard and Data Colada, the Many Co-Authors Project was launched by a group of Gino's co-authors, a "mass self-auditing effort" ( The Chronicle of Higher Education ) where over 140 collaborators of Francesca Gino are trying "to collect and share information on the provenance and availability of the data for all articles co-authored by Francesca Gino." [29] [30] [18] It began publishing findings on November 6, 2023, listing 56 papers that had named Gino as having been involved in data collection, and reporting that for around 60% of these, all the co-authors who had responded reported not having access to the raw data. [29] Behavioral scientist Juliana Schroeder of UC Berkeley stated that she and other collaborators had initiated the retraction of another paper they had coauthored with Gino, citing a failure to track down data for four experiments in the paper and "unexplained issues" with two of its other datasets. [29] Gino reacted by decrying the Many Co-Authors Project for unfairly singling her out for scrutiny, and by accusing one of the involved researchers of falsely claiming that she (Gino) had collected data for one of the papers. [29]

    Allegations of plagiarism

    In April 2024, it was reported that Gino was suspected of numerous instances of plagiarism in several of her works, including her books Rebel Talent and Sidetracked, which were from a variety of sources, including several undergraduate theses (none of which were supervised by Gino), research papers and chapters by other researchers, and newspaper and magazine articles, including those by Forbes and Reactor magazine (formerly Tor.com). Gino's lawyer denied the allegations. [5] [31]

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