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Diederik Stapel

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Diederik Stapel is a Dutch former professor of social psychology at Tilburg University. In 2011 the university suspended him after finding that he had fabricated and manipulated data for his research publications over a number of years, affecting dozens of studies; by 2015 fifty eight of his publications had been retracted. His case became one of the defining scandals behind psychology's ongoing replication crisis and its push for stronger research integrity safeguards.

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Birth Date
1966-10-19 1
Birth Year
1966 1
Birthplace
Oegstgeest, Netherlands 1
Nationality / Culture
Dutch 1
Defining Contribution
Suspended by Tilburg University in 2011 for fabricating and manipulating research data 1
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His large-scale data fabrication, exposed in 2011, became one of the highest-profile cases fueling psychology's replication crisis.

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1. Wikipedia: Diederik Stapel
  • Opening sentence
    Diederik Alexander Stapel (born 19 October 1966) is a Dutch former professor
  • Early life
    Stapel was born in the village of Oegstgeest, near Leiden, the youngest of four children.
  • Opening paragraph
    In 2011 Tilburg University suspended Stapel for fabricating and manipulating data for his research publications.
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