Journal retracts research claiming people with obesity are dishonest
The paper's lead author describes the decision to pull her research as a 'bitter surprise'
A paper published in the prestigious journal Nature which linked obesity to dishonesty has been retracted.
It had originally concluded that people with obesity “have a harder time” refraining from lying when the underlying motivation was “avoiding a bad outcome”.
Before reaching this conclusion, researchers from the Joint Research Centre in Ispra investigated if body weight and hunger influenced whether a person was more likely to lie when playing a dice-based game.
The 65 participants with a BMI greater than 30 and 85 participants with BMI of 25 or less were required to roll a tricolour die in a sealed cup and to observe the outcome through a hole in the lid.
