Student or situation? Personality and classroom context as predictors of attitudes about business school cheating

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-282

  Day, Nancy E ^a   Hudson, Doranne ^a   Dobies, Pamela Roffol ^a   Waris, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business students; Cheating; Classroom context; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955483160     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-010-9145-8     Document Type: Article

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