Psychological Teaching-Learning Contracts: Academic Integrity and Moral Psychology. Issue 4 (19th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barnhardt, Bradford; Ginns, Paul
• Is Part Of: Ethics & behavior. Volume 27:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 313
• Page End: 334
• Publication Date: 2017-05-19
• Subjects: cheating -- academic integrity -- moral judgment -- social contract thinking; Ethics -- Periodicals; 170.5
• DOI: 10.1080/10508422.2016.1167604
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1050-8422

Abstract

Abstract : The psychological teaching–learning contract model of academic integrity, presented herein, features a social contract-based mechanism for moral judgment that is hypothesized to underlie the "belief–behavior incongruity, " that is, the noted frequency with which students who believe cheating is immoral still cheat. High school students ( N = 493) from 11 international schools in 9 countries participated in the study. Results suggest that students often regard the cheating they do within a given context to be justifiable, that is, not immoral, implying that such behavior is not incongruous with their moral beliefs.