That's a nice bridge to another thing that I wanted to ask you about.
Because all these changes in the system obviously were brought on by something.
cases that we've had recently, especially in social psychology.
And the focus on questionable research practices.
you as a social psychologist, what is your experience with that?
How is the field affected by all this negative attention?
>> Well, I think the field is affected in different ways.
that have been in fraud cases.
the publications where one of the authors is a foster are just tainted forever.
there's always gonna be this name on there that people know to be wrong.
it has some positive consequences as well we can talk about that.
if something is based on fraud.
People do try to replicate it, right?
That's when they will try to replicate the experiment.
point the effects and its impact also on the environment is going to be diminished.
as such a big impact.
ended up not being part of very important pieces of the literature.
also because it don't replicate you won't find many replication.
>> So I think that's, I mean, I think it's great.
You left university, to work for a commercial company.
So did any of this negative attention, have an influence?
Did we scare you away?
It's just the commercial companies, you just make so much more money.
thought I would go for that.
No honestly though, I must say that I wasn't that affected by it.
love to work at your company as well.
Because of this but they were half joking.
Everybody still loves their work and these are very dedicated people.
And I think we'll endure I'm sure.
So not for me personally.
people who committed these fraudulent acts.
I can imagine some careers that could have been beautiful.
>> Were sort of destroyed.
>> Yeah. >> By this.
these people may not think they have a future in our field.
we believe in you so you can stay on and you can just rebuild your CV.
They were just so disillusioned that they didn't want to.
I don't like working in a field like this.
people automatically assume that you may be a fraudster.
unless you are very dedicated to bring out false information into the world.
usually will become less productive because people question their research.
That can have a big impact, right?
That can be- >> It can, yeah.
>> So there's stories- >> Horrible thing happen to you.
Yeah, it can be a terrible thing to happen.
that they're under scrutiny for months.
And that's not just one person.
>> Yeah, it can have a lot of impact.