In
the article “Situational And Personal Causes Of Student Cheating” (2009) by
David A. Rettinger and Yair Kramer, the authors claim that cheating in schools
is in part caused by other students’ cheating, and that seeing others cheat can
lead to an increase in cheating. This claim is supported by two expiriments
conducted by the authors, both of which lead to the conclusion that the culture
around a person can increase or decrease cheating. The purpose of this article
is to present findings about peer pressure in cheating in order to prevent more
cheating by incorporating methods to reduce the pressure to cheat and to
increase the pressure to not cheat. The intended audience for this article is a
group of people who are educated and interested in the psychology of cheating,
because the article includes intense vocabulary and psychological theories, and
contains statistical data tables that are difficult to analyze without the
proper educational background.
Rettinger,
David A., and Yair Kramer. "Situational And Personal Causes Of Student
Cheating." Research In Higher Education 50.3 (2009): 293-313. Academic
Search Premier. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.
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