True confessions?: Alumni's retrospective reports on undergraduate cheating behaviors

Ethics and Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Yardley, Jennifer ^a   Rodríguez, Melanie Domenech ^a,c   Bates, Scott C ^a   Nelson, Johnathan ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Psychology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic dishonesty; Cheating; College students

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849116440     PISSN: 10508422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10508420802487096     Document Type: Article

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