On 31 October 2011, a committee entrusted with investigating 'the extent and nature of the breach of scientific integrity committed by Mr D.A. The university announced an investigation of his work. In September 2011, Tilburg University suspended Stapel due to his fabrication of data used in research publications. In October 2014, Dutch media reporter, Eli MacColl, stated that Stapel had returned to work, teaching social philosophy at the Fontys Academy for Creative Industries in Tilburg. He returned his PhD title to the University of Amsterdam in November 2011, noting that his 'behavior of the past years are inconsistent with the duties associated with the doctorate'. Stapel received the Career Trajectory Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in 2009, which has since been retracted. In September 2010, Stapel became dean of the social and behavioral sciences faculty.

He became a professor at the University of Groningen in 2000 and moved to Tilburg University in 2006, where he founded TiBER, the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research. in psychology and communications in 1991 and a PhD cum laude in social psychology in 1997, all from the University of Amsterdam.

After completing his schooling, Stapel, for a while, studied acting at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania before moving back to the Netherlands for an undergraduate degree in Psychology. In high school, he met his future wife Marcelle they married in 1997. Stapel was born to Rob Stapel and Dirkje Stapel on 19 October 1966 in the village of Oegstgeest, near Leiden. As of 2019, Stapel has had 58 of these publications retracted and is regarded by some as 'the biggest con man in academic science'.

This scientific misconduct took place over a number of years and affected dozens of his publications. In 2011 Tilburg University suspended Stapel for fabricating and manipulating data for his research publications. ( June 2019)ĭiederik Alexander Stapel (born 19 October 1966) is a Dutch former professor of social psychology at Tilburg University. Quality standards, event notability guideline, or encyclopedic content policy. Please expand this article with properly sourced content to meet Wikipedia's This article reads like a press release or a news article and may be largely based on routine coverage.

Thinking fast and slow