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His own work held up very well to replication. It's when he is citing the work of other scholars (in particular, that of social psychologists) that doesn't hold up well to replicat…

Yup, completely agree. I think research practices (and incentives for sound research practices) are starting to tilt in the right direction, though perhaps at a slower pace than I'…

As someone working in this space, I largely agree with your take. I'll only add that compared to, say, traditional economics we don't have a sense of how unique the problem is to s…

Most of Kahneman's own work has held up quite well to replication, and that makes up a large portion of the book. But a lot of the social psych findings he discusses have not fared…

We tested both ideas (altruism and theft aversion) in the paper. Short answer is we find evidence for both. For somewhat technical reasons, we think the "viewing oneself as a thief…

It's a fair point, but we've tried to test this issue in a number of different ways. Based on the available data, cross country differences in email usage doesn't seem to have a me…

A valid concern, but a couple points: (1) This issue doesn't affect the treatment effect (the difference in return rates for money vs no money), which was the main focus of the pap…

Actually one of our research assistants was temporarily detained (in Kenya, I believe) for suspicious activity. As you can imagine, having a bunch of "lost" wallets on hand require…

Definitely a concern. We took steps to examine if there were specific "experimenter effects", that is whether response rates were affected by one research assistant rather than ano…

One of the study authors here. On targeting front-desk employees, we did this both to allow relatively portable cross-country comparisons and for reasons of internal validity (e.g.…

She never taught at Cal State Fullerton. Here is her CV: https://ucirvine-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/eloftus_ad...

My understanding is that there have also been semi-recent replications done in France, Iran, and a partial replication conducted at Santa Clara university. All found the same basic…

Right --- it's called block randomization.

Ted Chiang is fantastic. Good podcast discussion of this story: https://overcast.fm/+HV3dvbFhA

Definitely a fair criticism. In the paper we test for experimenter effects (are the results different for male vs female research assistants? Are some researcher assistants acting …

Cost was about US $600K in total.

Absolutely. We thought a lot about this trade-off when designing the study. The disadvantage of using a clear business-card case over a traditional wallet is clear, in that it is r…

Thanks for your comments. 1. This is a fair point. In the Supplemental Material, we explore cross-country differences in email usage. When we statistically adjust for country-level…

Many thanks. Yes, we only went back for those who contacted us first. Your idea is an interesting one, but it gets at something else (how many people, who otherwise would keep the …

We originally planned to include Japan but after some initial pilot testing we realized that the country was unsuitable for methodological reasons. Japan has a lot of small “police…

Quick clarification: we did adjust for purchasing power parity across countries (but not within countries). As you surmised, even for differences between cities like SF and Fresno,…

Thanks for your comments (I'm one of the authors on this paper). For a subset of the countries, we went back to retrieve the wallets (logistically, collecting the wallets turned ou…

Interesting how their review omits the paper that has conducted the most direct test of loss aversion: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.1070.071... Also they cla…

The reason why it is usually considered irrational/illogical is because hyperbolic discounting leads to dynamically inconsistent preferences. For example, under hyperbolic discount…