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‘Harmless’ cheating in the lab linked to misbehavior in real life

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ANN ARBOR — Breaking the rules.

Almost daily we hear about someone who has cheated to get ahead—students using a study app to get answers for a final exam, two more auto companies caught fudging on emissions data, and Facebook employees fired for taking private user data for the purposes of stalking. (more…)

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Time adds a wrinkle to nature and nurture

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Nature and nurture have found a new companion — historical context.

A new study has produced the best evidence yet that the role of genetics in complex traits, including obesity, varies over time. Both the era in which scientific research is conducted and the era in which subjects were born may have an impact on the degree to which genetic factors are present in scientific data. (more…)

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