Good Lamps Are the Best Police

Good Lamps Are the Best Police — Psychological Science

Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions; it may also induce a psychological feeling of illusory anonymity that disinhibits dishonest and self-interested behavior regardless of actual anonymity. Three experiments provided empirical evidence supporting this prediction. In Experiment 1, participants in a room with slightly dimmed lighting cheated more and thus earned more ...

How good are the best papers of JASIS?

Peer-Selected “Best Papers”—Are They Really That “Good”?

BACKGROUND Peer evaluation is the cornerstone of science evaluation. In this paper, we analyze whether or not a form of peer evaluation, the pre-publication selection of the best papers in Computer Science (CS) conferences, is better than random, when considering future citations received by the papers. METHODS Considering 12 conferences (for several years), we collected the citation counts f...

Only the best is good enough.

The best defense is a good offense.