The relations of inattention and hyperactivity to academic cheating in adolescents with executive functioning problems

Anderman, Eric M.; Gilman, Rich; Liu, Xingfeiyue; Ha, Seung Yon

doi:10.1002/pits.22644

“…From early adolescence into emerging adulthood and beyond, people continue to improve their strategies to regulate themselves and form emotions adaptively (Zimmermann & Iwanski, 2014). And higher executive control remains associated with lower cheating rates in adolescence (Anderman et al, 2022).…”

Section: Variability In Action Selection Across Situationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Canary Alive: What Cheating Reveals about Morality and Its Development

Dahl,

Waltzer

2023

Human Development

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Reports of academic cheating trigger fears of moral decay. This inference, that cheating is a dying canary in the coal mine of morality, assumes that youth who cheat lack genuine, moral concerns with honesty and integrity. This article proposes an alternative perspective on cheating and dishonesty. We propose that cheating and other forms of dishonesty result from (1) misperceptions of what constitutes cheating, (2) evaluations that cheating or lying is okay under exceptional circumstances, and (3) prioritization of non-integrity actions during conflict. Each of these three steps—perceptions, evaluations, and action-selections—show both situational and developmental variability. From this perspective, research on cheating reveals moral engagement, not moral disengagement: Developmental and psychological research shows that, far from being a dying canary, cheating reveals the pervasive role of morality in decision-making.

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“…From early adolescence into emerging and later adulthood, youth continue to improve their strategies to regulate themselves and form emotions adaptively (Zimmermann & Iwanski, 2014). And higher executive control remains associated with lower cheating rates in adolescence (Anderman et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Canary Alive: What Cheating Reveals About Morality and Its Development

Dahl,

Waltzer

2023

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Reports of academic cheating trigger fears of moral decay. This inference, that cheating is a dying canary in the coal mine of morality, assumes that youth who cheat lack genuine, moral concerns with honesty and integrity. This article proposes an alternative perspective on cheating and dishonesty. We propose that cheating and other forms of dishonesty result from (1) misperceptions of what constitutes cheating, (2) evaluations that cheating or lying is okay under exceptional circumstances, and (3) prioritization of non-integrity actions during conflict. Each of these three steps—perceptions, evaluations, and action-selections—show both situational and developmental variability. From this perspective, research on cheating reveals moral engagement, not moral disengagement: Developmental and psychological research shows that, far from being a dying canary, cheating reveals the pervasive role of morality in decision-making.

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