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Increasing honesty in humans with noninvasive brain stimulation

Michel André Maréchal, Alain Cohn, Giuseppe Ugazio, and View ORCID ProfileChristian C. Ruff
PNAS first published April 10, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614912114
Michel André Maréchal
aDepartment of Economics, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland;
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Alain Cohn
bBooth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637;
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Giuseppe Ugazio
cDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Christian C. Ruff
aDepartment of Economics, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland;
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  1. Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved March 13, 2017 (received for review September 6, 2016)

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201614912
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614912114
PubMed: 
28396395

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published April 10, 2017.

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Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Author Information

  1. Michel André Maréchala,1,2,
  2. Alain Cohnb,1,2,
  3. Giuseppe Ugazioc, and
  4. Christian C. Ruffa,2
  1. aDepartment of Economics, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland;
  2. bBooth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637;
  3. cDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
  1. Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved March 13, 2017 (received for review September 6, 2016)

Footnotes

  • ↵1M.A.M. and A.C. contributed equally to this work.

  • ↵2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: christian.ruff{at}econ.uzh.ch, alain.cohn{at}chicagobooth.edu, or michel.marechal{at}econ.uzh.ch.
  • Author contributions: M.A.M., A.C., and C.C.R. designed research; G.U. performed research; M.A.M., A.C., and C.C.R. analyzed data; and M.A.M., A.C., G.U., and C.C.R. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1614912114/-/DCSupplemental.

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