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Accountability in Research
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Deception in Psychology: Moral Costs and Benefits of Unsought Self-Knowledge

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Jonathan Mummolo & Erik Peterson. (2017) Demand Effects in Survey Experiments: An Empirical Assessment. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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