Classroom Cheating: Consistent Attitude, Perceptions, and Behavior

Abstract

A number of successful attempts have been made to identify psychological, situational, and/or demographic variables which differentially characterize groups of college students identified as cheaters and noncheaters (e.g., David, 1967; Hetherington and Feldman, 1964; Jacobson, Berger, and Millham, 1970; Knowlton and Hamerlynck, 1967). Such studies have tended to be based on admitted, projected, or inferred cheating behavior rather than on observed cheating behavior. As a consequence of the application of any one of a number of cognitive consistency models (cf., Feldman, 1966), situation-specific attitude and perceptual differences between behaviorally-defined cheater/noncheater groups would be predicted. Moreover, the assumed dynamics of the consistency motive encourage directional predictions. For example, in a classroom setting, students who cheat should be more favorably predisposed toward cheating than those who do not cheat. That is to say, attitudes toward cheating of students who cheat should

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