Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Cheating: The Influence of Direct Knowledge and Attitudes on Academic Dishonesty

What effect does witnessing other students cheat have on one's own cheating behavior? What roles do moral attitudes and neutralizing attitudes (justifications for behavior) play when deciding to cheat? The present research proposes a model of academic dishonesty which takes into account each of...

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Published in:Ethics & behavior 2010-01, Vol.20 (1), p.47-64
Main Authors: O'Rourke, Jillian, Barnes, Jeffrey, Deaton, Anna, Fulks, Kristopher, Ryan, Kristina, Rettinger, David A.
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Witnesses
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