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American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 Beliefs and decisions are often based on confronting models with data. What is the largest “fake” correlation that a misspecified model can generate, even when it passes an elementary misspecification test? We study an “analyst” who fits a model, represented by a directed acyclic graph, to an objective (multivariate) Gaussian distribution.
Eliaz, Kfir, Spiegler, Ran, Weiss, Yair
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The Economic Journal, 2012 When we take a taxi we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract to take the shortest possible path. Is the behaviour of the driver affected by beliefs about our cheating notions? We address this question in the context of a trust game.
Butler, Jeff +2 more
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Why Students Do Not Engage in Contract Cheating
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Contract cheating refers to students paying a third party to complete university assessments for them. Although opportunities for commercial contract cheating are widely available in the form of essay mills, only about 3% of students engage in this ...
Kiata Rundle +4 more
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Validity of an Instrument to Detect Cheating Confirmed by the Elicited Emotional Reactions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Cheating forms part of a complex emotional and cognitive process. However, although a relatively mundane phenomenon, instruments to evaluate cheating and its effects socially are scarce.
Paola Hernández-Chávez +6 more
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The Cognitive Conditions Associated with Academic Dishonesty in University Students and Its Effect on Society [PDF]
, 2020 The problem of cheating in universities has existed as long as education itself; however, the problem has gotten exponentially worse in recent years. While consequences of cheating are not as noticeable today, the growing numbers of students cheating ...
von Jena, Zachary Alexander
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Explaining coexistence of nitrogen fixing and non-fixing rhizobia in legume-rhizobia mutualism using mathematical modeling [PDF]
, 2017 In the mutualism established between legumes and soil bacteria known as rhizobia, bacteria from soil infect plants roots and reproduce inside root nodules where they fix atmospheric N2 for plant nutrition, receiving carbohydrates in exchange.
Knopoff, Damián Alejandro +4 more
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Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education, 2013 ## Purpose of the Study: Academic dishonesty is endemic in business education, and research suggests strongly that marketing students are frequent culprits. In this study, the authors investigate (a) what students think of various cheating behaviors, (b)
Brent Smith, Feng Shen
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Dataset of the effect of difficulty messaging on academic cheating in middle school Chinese children
Data in Brief, 2022 The present dataset was reported in a paper entitled “Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children” [1]. It reports the findings of an experimental study that used a naturalistic math test-taking paradigm to ...
Li Zhao +9 more
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Machiavellian Ways to Academic Cheating: A Mediational and Interactional Model
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Academic cheating has become a pervasive practice from primary schools to university. This study aims at investigating this phenomenon through a nomological network which integrates different theoretical frameworks and models, such as trait and social ...
Claudio Barbaranelli +6 more
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Acta PsychologicaThis study investigates the development of cheating behavior over time in online versus in-person environments among university students, with a particular focus on potential gender differences.
Kai Leisge +4 more
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