The research shoes that most students have observed other students cheating and, unfortunately, that most students (75-80%) have committed a serious form of cheating at least once (28% are repeaters) as undergrads. (See Don McCabes national studies especially, and Bernard Whitley's work on predictors.) It may be very difficult to find a "no cheat" group!
Patricia Keith-Spiegel
> (specifically looking at students perceptions of descriptive and
> injunctivenorms). I've used cheating as an example of the false
> consensus effect
> (student who have cheated assume most other student cheat, while
> those who
> do not assume most students do NOT cheat). Without results I can't
> speculate, but the idea arose because some students had read about
> socialnorming approaches to reduce binge drinking and wondered if
> social norming
> could be used to reduce cheating (i.e., when a student finds out few
> students cheat does it make them think twice before cheating). They
> decided to look first at the perceptions of norms before going to
> far with
> the research. But we'll keep the group posted.
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Peterson
> Assistant Professor of Psychology
> The University of South Dakota
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis_Schmier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:26 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
> Subject: Re: Newer and better cheating
>
> Beth, what do you think you can do to influence a reduction of the
> incidence of cheating in a non-punitive way?
>
>
> Make it a good day.
>
> --Louis--
>
>
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