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The Framed Lie: How a Photo Stole Her Career and Identity · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: A utility lineman named Keith Kowalski was twenty two feet
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  Speaker 1: up a pole in the Callaway University parking lot when
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  Speaker 1: he saw it, a framed photograph sitting on the window
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  Speaker 1: sill of a fourth floor office, face outward, visible from
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  Speaker 1: the lot below. He climbed down and called facilities. The
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  Speaker 1: office had been locked and vacated for three weeks. Campus
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  Speaker 1: security confirmed no forced entry, but when the maintenance crew
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  Speaker 1: opened the door, they found something that stopped the investigation cold.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph showed a woman at a podium, a university
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  Speaker 1: banner behind her, and an inscription in neat handwriting at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom, doctor Jessica Bauer Foundational Contributions to behavioral science.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Bower held no doctorate, and she was forty miles
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  Speaker 1: away in a voluntary psychiatric hold on the morning that
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  Speaker 1: photograph appeared on that sill. This is the story of
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  Speaker 1: how one person dismaysled another's reality so completely that the
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  Speaker 1: victim couldn't recognize what had been taken from her or
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  Speaker 1: by whom, until investigators began piecing it together from the
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  Speaker 1: outside in. What the evidence eventually revealed was not a
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  Speaker 1: sudden act. It was a construction built over four years,
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  Speaker 1: one careful decision at a time, and the photograph on
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  Speaker 1: the window sill, that strange, impossible artifact turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be the last piece placed before the whole structure collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: There is something in this case that resists easy categories.
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  Speaker 2: This was not a robbery.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing was physically stolen, but by twenty nineteen Jessica Bower
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  Speaker 1: had lost her work, her professional standing, a shared financial account,
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  Speaker 1: and her grip on what was real. The question investigators
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  Speaker 1: had to answer was not just what had been taken,
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  Speaker 1: but how a person takes something that isn't an object.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Bower grew up in Millbrook in Garfield County. Her
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  Speaker 1: younger sister, Pam, still lives there. Pam is a dental hygienist,
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  Speaker 1: organized practical, the kind of person who notices when routines shift.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica was the opposite of reckless. People who knew her
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  Speaker 1: at Callaway University described her the same way, consistently, methodical, thorough,
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  Speaker 1: someone who double checked her own work before any one
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  Speaker 1: else could. She had earned her master's degree in cognitive
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  Speaker 1: psychology from Callaway in two thousand seven, and she had
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  Speaker 1: stayed not because she lacked ambition but because the work
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  Speaker 1: itself held her there. By two thousand fifteen, she was
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  Speaker 1: a senior research coordinator in the Department of Behavioral Sciences.
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  Speaker 1: No doctorate, which mattered in an institution that measured status
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  Speaker 1: by credentials, but she had something that credentials don't automatically produce.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve years of accumulated data, twelve years of methodological decisions,
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  Speaker 1: and a frame work she had spent years refining quiet
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  Speaker 1: on her own. The framework was about anchoring, specifically, how
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  Speaker 1: initial information distorts every judgment that follows it. How the
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  Speaker 1: first number on a page, the first word spoken in
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  Speaker 1: a negotiation, the first impression of a person reshapes everything
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  Speaker 1: that comes after. Jessica had been building a formal model
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  Speaker 1: of this effect across multiple behavioral contexts. It was careful work, precise,
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  Speaker 1: and it was hers. She ran the Crestfield rail Trail
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  Speaker 1: most mornings, four miles through the North Campus Woodlands. She
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  Speaker 1: always turned at the same point, a cast iron mile
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  Speaker 1: marker post dated eighteen ninety one. She had been turning
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  Speaker 1: at that post for years. Pam described her sister in
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  Speaker 1: those years as settled content in a specific, earned way.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica knew what she was building, even if the institution
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  Speaker 1: hadn't fully recognized it yet. In September twenty fifteen, Callaway
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  Speaker 1: held a faculty the welcome dinner for new hires. Jessica attended,
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  Speaker 1: so did Marvin Sanders. Sanders was fifty three years old.
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  Speaker 1: He had just been appointed associate professor of applied psychology,
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  Speaker 1: arriving from a position at a university in the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: He was experienced, credentialed, fluent in the language of academic prestige.
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  Speaker 1: He knew how to move in a room like that.
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  Speaker 1: According to later testimony, Sanders approached Jessica that evening. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: he had reviewed departmental profiles before arriving. He knew who
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  Speaker 1: she was and what she worked on before they exchanged
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  Speaker 1: a word. That dinner was the beginning, but the mechanism
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  Speaker 1: Sanders used didn't activate that night. It activated five months later,
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  Speaker 1: in February twenty sixteen, when Jessica showed him something she
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  Speaker 1: had never shown anyone at Callaway. She brought printed tables
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  Speaker 1: to a dinner meeting, spread them across the booth, walked
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  Speaker 1: him through the anchoring framework she had been.
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  Speaker 2: Building for years.
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  Speaker 1: It was, by every account from people who later reviewed it,
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  Speaker 1: genuinely original work. Sanders told her it was elegant. Then
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  Speaker 1: he told her something else. He suggested carefully that without
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  Speaker 1: a doctorate, she might face resistance publishing it alone, that
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  Speaker 1: the field would scrutinize the source, that she might need
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  Speaker 1: some one to help her bring it forward. Credibly, Jessica
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  Speaker 1: Bower had spent twelve years being meticulous. She had built
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  Speaker 1: something real, and in that booth, with those printed tables
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  Speaker 1: spread between them, she made a decision that would cost
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  Speaker 1: her everything she had built. She trusted him, the trust
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  Speaker 1: she placed in Sanders. That February Evening didn't collapse at once.
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  Speaker 1: It eroded by design, across months, across small concessions that
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  Speaker 1: each felt reasonable in isolation. The first thing Sanders asked
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  Speaker 1: for was access. He wanted to review the full data
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  Speaker 1: set behind the anchoring framework, the raw numbers, the coding schema,
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  Speaker 1: the methodological notes Jessica had been building since well before
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  Speaker 1: he arrived at Callaway.
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  Speaker 2: She gave him everything.
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  Speaker 1: He was, after all, the credentialed expert who had just
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  Speaker 1: told her the work was elegant, and he had offered
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  Speaker 1: to help carry it forward. By the spring of twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Sanders was shaping the paper's voice. He suggested structural changes,
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  Speaker 1: then framing changes. Then he began referring to the project
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  Speaker 1: in departmental conversations as collaborative work. He was leading, with
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  Speaker 1: Jessica in a supporting role. Jessica said nothing publicly, but
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  Speaker 1: she did something that would matter enormously later. She started
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  Speaker 1: keeping a notebook every meeting, every decision, every time a
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  Speaker 1: sentence in the draft changed, and who changed it. Sharon Morris,
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  Speaker 1: the clinical psychologist who later worked with Jessica, who later
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  Speaker 1: worked with Jessica, would describe that notebook as epistemic self preservation,
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  Speaker 1: a word for the instinct some people develop when they sense,
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  Speaker 1: not yet consciously, that someone is trying to make them
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  Speaker 1: doubt what they know. The notebook existed because some part
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  Speaker 1: of Jessica already understood what was happening, even before she.
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  Speaker 2: Could name it.
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  Speaker 1: In the fall of twenty sixteen, Sanders submitted the anchoring
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  Speaker 1: framework paper for publication. His name was listed as sole author.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica appeared in the acknowledgments as having provided data coordination,
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  Speaker 1: twelve years of work two words. The paper published in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen under the title Ancoring Mechanisms in behavioral prediction.
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  Speaker 1: The field responded well. Sanders's reputation rose. A second paper followed,
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  Speaker 1: and a third, both drawing on data sets registered under
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  Speaker 1: Jessica's coordinator id, data sets that pre dated Sanders's arrival
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  Speaker 1: at Callaway by four years. Also in twenty seventeen, a
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  Speaker 1: joint savings account was opened was listed as the primary
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  Speaker 1: account holder. Bill Nakamura, the forensic accountant who later examined
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  Speaker 1: the financial records, traced a restructuring of that account over
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  Speaker 1: eighteen months that systematically redirected institutional grant supplements tied to
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  Speaker 1: Jessica's coordinator role. Jessica by that point had pulled away
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  Speaker 1: from nearly everyone Wendy Pace noticed.
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  Speaker 2: At first.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy was a grant's administrator who had worked alongside Jessica
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  Speaker 1: for years. They had lunch together, exchanged notes on department politics,
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  Speaker 1: knew each other as rhythms. Around twenty seventeen, Jessica stopped
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  Speaker 1: returning her messages, stopped suggesting lunch, became, in Wendy's words, unreachable,
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  Speaker 1: not angry, just absent. That withdrawal would later be understood
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  Speaker 1: as a symptom, but at the time it looked like
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  Speaker 1: Jessica had simply grown distant, and that distance meant no
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  Speaker 1: one was close enough to ask the questions that might
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  Speaker 1: have broken in the pattern earlier. The pattern might have
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  Speaker 1: continued indefinitely. What ended it was a number. In April
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, Wendy Pace was reviewing grant files for
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  Speaker 1: a departmental audit. She was not looking for anything unusual.
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  Speaker 1: She was doing the routine work of someone who had
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  Speaker 1: done the same job for years. She found data set
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  Speaker 1: registered under Jessica's coordinator ID. The registration predated Sanders's arrival
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  Speaker 1: at Callaway by four years. It was in a repository
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  Speaker 1: folder that had been relabeled recently as part of a
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  Speaker 1: multi year collaborative project led by Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: Wendy flagged it.
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  Speaker 1: She escalated to department chair doctor Alan Goss on May fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. Goss referred the anomaly to Research Integrity.
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  Speaker 1: The investigator assigned was Diane Foss.
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  Speaker 2: Diane moved carefully.
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  Speaker 1: She requested Sanders's original notes for all three papers, the
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  Speaker 1: handwritten and typed records he would have maintained as the
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  Speaker 1: work's primary architect. Sanders produced them. They were dated January
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, which would have placed them before the February
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  Speaker 1: dinner where Jessica first shared the framework. Tom Vega ran
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  Speaker 1: the file metadata. The notes had been created in November
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  Speaker 1: of two thousy sixteen, ten months after the date written
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  Speaker 1: on them, ten months after Jessica had spread those printed
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  Speaker 1: tables across a booth and shown Sanders the work she
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  Speaker 1: had never shown anyone else. Sanders had not simply taken
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  Speaker 1: the credit. He had manufactured evidence that the credit was
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  Speaker 1: always his. Diane notified Sanders on June nineteenth. Six days later,
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  Speaker 1: on June twenty fifth, he returned his key card and resigned.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica knew none of this. She had checked herself into
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  Speaker 1: a voluntary psychiatric hold at a facility forty miles from
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  Speaker 1: Callaway in late May of twenty nineteen, before the investigation
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  Speaker 1: had produced any of its findings, before anyone had confirmed
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  Speaker 1: what the meditator would show. She went in because she
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  Speaker 1: had stopped sleeping, because she no longer trusted her own
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  Speaker 1: memory of events she had lived through, because three years
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  Speaker 1: of having her reality quietly methodically contradicted had reached a
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  Speaker 1: point where she could not hold it together any longer.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation was running Jessica was forty miles away, and
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Sanders's office on the fourth floor of Aldrich Hall
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  Speaker 1: was dark and locked. Early July, facility's staff arrived to
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  Speaker 1: clear it. They found a cardboard box just inside the door.
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  Speaker 1: Inside it printed copies of Jessica's three original research documents,
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  Speaker 1: her handwritten annotations still visible on the margins, and a
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  Speaker 1: second copy of a photograph placed face down. The first
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  Speaker 1: copy of that photograph had already been found by Keith Kowalski,
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  Speaker 1: a lineman working a utility pole in the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday in July twenty two feet off the ground.
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  Speaker 1: From that height, he could see directly into the window
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth floor rear corner office.
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  Speaker 1: Sitting on the sill, face outward toward the lot was
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  Speaker 1: a framed eight by ten photograph of a woman at
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  Speaker 1: a podium. He reported it to campus facilities as an
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  Speaker 1: unsecured item in a vacant office. When investigators retrieved it,
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  Speaker 1: they found an inscription in Sanders's handwriting on the back
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  Speaker 1: of the frame. Doctor Jessica Bower foundational contributions to behavioral science.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Bower held no doctorate.
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  Speaker 2: She was forty miles away.
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  Speaker 1: In a psychiatric facility, and the photograph had been placed
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  Speaker 1: in a locked office with no sign of forced entry,
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  Speaker 1: facing a parking lot she had used for eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: Two objects, one sentence written in a man's handwriting, and
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  Speaker 1: a set of questions that had no comfortable answers. Picture
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  Speaker 1: the fourth floor office in those first days of July.
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  Speaker 1: The cardboard box sits just inside the door, her documents,
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  Speaker 1: her annotations, a face down copy of the photograph. The
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  Speaker 1: framed version faces outward on the windowsill, toward a parking
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  Speaker 1: lot she crossed every working day. Sanders had resigned six
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  Speaker 1: days earlier.
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  Speaker 2: The office had been locked.
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  Speaker 1: The box and the photograph could not have arrived there
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  Speaker 1: by accident. Someone brought them. The maintenance log confirmed a
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  Speaker 1: ground floor window found open and re secured twice in
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  Speaker 1: the three weeks before the box was discovered, no forced
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  Speaker 1: entry a re entry route. Consider the inscription first Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Bower Foundational Contributions to Behavioral Science. Every word of
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  Speaker 1: it is a distortion.
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  Speaker 2: She was not a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Her contributions had been published under his name. The inscription
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged what he had taken, but placed it in a
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  Speaker 1: title she didn't hold In a frame she would never
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  Speaker 1: see in an office she had no reason to any
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  Speaker 1: One reading is that Sanders built himself a private record
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  Speaker 1: of what he had done, a kept secret, not a confession.
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  Speaker 1: The face down duplicate in the box fits that shape,
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  Speaker 1: preserved hidden, turned away from view. But there is another reading,
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  Speaker 1: and it holds up better against the physical evidence. The
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  Speaker 1: framed photograph faced outward. It was positioned toward a specific
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  Speaker 1: parking lot. Sanders knew the lot she used, He had
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  Speaker 1: reviewed her departmental profile before they ever spoke. The positioning
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  Speaker 1: was not random. Investigators working from the record concluded the
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  Speaker 1: photograph was placed to be found not by the institution
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  Speaker 1: but by Jessica, a message sent to a person whose
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  Speaker 1: grip on her own professional reality had been by that
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  Speaker 1: point severely weakened. A reminder that he could name her. However,
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  Speaker 1: he chose that the version of her that existed in
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  Speaker 1: the public record was the version he had written. The
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  Speaker 1: email retrieved from his personal account confirmed the direction of intent,
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  Speaker 1: written in twenty sixteen. It read hers, which I intend
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  Speaker 1: to formalize under my name. The metadata on the back
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  Speaker 1: dated notes confirmed the mechanism. The financial records confirmed the duration,
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  Speaker 1: but the photograph facing outward from a locked room toward
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  Speaker 1: a parking lot she crossed every day. That confirmed something
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  Speaker 1: investigators had no single document to prove. It confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: this was not an error compounding itself over time.
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  Speaker 2: It was a structure.
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  Speaker 1: Built deliberately, maintained deliberately, and at the end signed. The
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  Speaker 1: box held her originals. The face down duplicate was there too,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever Sanders intended by leaving them leverage a preserved record,
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  Speaker 1: something he wasn't finished using. The effect was the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of what the structure had been designed to achieve. Her
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  Speaker 1: annotations were still in the margins, her handwriting, her data set,
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  Speaker 1: her framework intact, documented, and now in the hands of
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  Speaker 1: people who knew what to look for. The trial began
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  Speaker 1: in early spring of twenty twenty. Sanders entered not guilty plea.
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  Speaker 1: His defense argued that collaboration naturally produces shared intellectual territory,
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  Speaker 1: and that attribution decisions in academic publishing are rarely clear cut.
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  Speaker 1: The jury heard that argument against four years of physical evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The metadata did not bend, the email did not soften.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph positioned toward a specific parking lot by a
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  Speaker 1: man who had reviewed Jessica's departmental profile before they ever spoke,
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  Speaker 1: did not acquire an innocent explanation. Sanders's testimony was not accepted.
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  Speaker 1: The jury deliberated and returned a verdict that covered three counts,
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  Speaker 1: research fraud, identity fraud in a professional context, and financial
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  Speaker 1: exploitation of a vulnerable adult. He was sentenced to four years.
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  Speaker 1: Two were suspended. He was ordered, as a condition of
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  Speaker 1: that sentence, to correct attribution on all three published papers.
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  Speaker 1: That correction happened. All three papers were reissued with Jessica
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  Speaker 1: Bauer listed as primary author. The anchoring framework. The things
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  Speaker 1: she had spread across a restaurant, both in February of
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, printed on plain paper and shown to a
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  Speaker 1: colleague she trusted, was published under her name alone in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, same journal, same data set, her annotations
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  Speaker 1: in the margins the whole time. She returned to Callaway
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  Speaker 1: in fall of twenty twenty as a full research fellow.
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  Speaker 1: Then the investigation turned backward. Callaway's integrity office, working with
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  Speaker 1: outside council, contacted Sanders two prior institutions. What they found
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  Speaker 1: confirmed what Diane Foss and Sharon Morris had already suspected
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  Speaker 1: from the structural consistency of the Callaway case. At a
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  Speaker 1: university in the Pacific Northwest, a research assistant had worked
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  Speaker 1: under Sanders in a mere identical arrangement access to her data,
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  Speaker 1: incremental absorption of her work, and a credibility erosion campaign
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  Speaker 1: when she began to push back.
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  Speaker 2: At a Midwest.
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  Speaker 1: Teaching college, a junior lecturer, same pattern, same shape. Neither
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  Speaker 1: woman had reported at the time, both had left academia.
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  Speaker 1: The institutions, according to records reviewed during the Callaway proceedings,
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  Speaker 1: had not taken disciplinary action. Before the conviction. Sanders had
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  Speaker 1: moved from one position to the next, carrying the same method,
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  Speaker 1: and each time the person it was used against disappeared
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  Speaker 1: from the field, not from violence, but from the slow
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  Speaker 1: collapse of professional ground under their feet. Three women across
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  Speaker 1: three institutions, one staid Marvin Sanders built over four years
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  Speaker 1: was not a Cohn in the ordinary sense, a con
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  Speaker 1: has an exit, the grifter takes the money and moves.
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  Speaker 1: What Sanders built was something designed to persist a professional
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  Speaker 1: record in which his name occupied the space where hers
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  Speaker 1: should have been, and in which her capacity to contest
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  Speaker 1: that record was progressively removed.
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  Speaker 2: He used the tools.
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  Speaker 1: That academic culture makes available mentorship, co authorship, administrative access,
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  Speaker 1: financial interdependence. He used the logic of deference that institutions
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  Speaker 1: extend to tenured faculty and withdraw, often invisibly, from coordinators
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  Speaker 1: without doctorates. He understood that the damage would look from
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  Speaker 1: the outside like her failure to advance. The thing that
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  Speaker 1: undid it was not a dramatic reversal.
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  Speaker 2: It was granular.
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  Speaker 1: A data set registered under one coordinator ID four years
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  Speaker 1: before a professor arrived, A file creates time stamp ten
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  Speaker 1: months later than the date written by hand, A framed
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  Speaker 1: photograph on a window sill facing a parking lot in
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  Speaker 1: a locked room with no forced entry. Each element alone
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  Speaker 1: might have been explained. Together, they described a structure. Jessica
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  Speaker 1: Bauer spent months in a psychiatric facility forty miles from
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  Speaker 1: the campus where her work was being formally restored.
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  Speaker 2: To her name.
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  Speaker 1: She came back to that campus. She still runs the
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  Speaker 1: Crestfield rail trail four miles through the north campus Woodlands.
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  Speaker 1: She still turns at the eighteen ninety one iron mile
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  Speaker 1: marker post. She named her framework anchoring. The idea at
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  Speaker 1: its core is that people's judgments are shaped by the
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  Speaker 1: first reference point they encounter, and that the influence of
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  Speaker 1: that anchor persists even when the person knows it's there.
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  Speaker 1: She built that framework in her own time, on her
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  Speaker 1: own data, and showed it to someone who understood its
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  Speaker 1: value immediately. He understood it well enough to take She
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  Speaker 1: understood it well enough to outlast him. There is something
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  Speaker 1: exact about that. The woman who mapped how anchors shape
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  Speaker 1: reality spent four years having her own reality reanchered around
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  Speaker 1: a false point of origin, and when the false anchor
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  Speaker 1: was removed, the original data was still there, registered under
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  Speaker 1: her id, annotated in her handwriting, dated before he arrived.
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