Lying and cheating: fraudulent excuse making, cheating, and plagiarism.
Undergraduates reported their use of fraudulent excuses; 72% of the student participants claimed to have used a fraudulent excuse in college at least once. This activity was correlated with an independently obtained self-report measure of cheating (r = .38) and plagiarism (r = .27). Grade point average was negatively correlated with all 3 measures but did not reach statistical significance with the measure of plagiarism.
Roig
Miguel
M
Department of Psychology, Notre Dame Division of St. John's College, St. John's University, 300 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY, USA. roigm@stjohns.edu
Caso
Marissa
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015714:Plagiarism; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States