In recent years with the changes of time, academic dishonest behaviors become more and more general. With the highly development of technology and the help of Internet, student can easily get all kinds of materials and commit plagiarism now. Cause there are still none related researches about the plagiarism behaviors in graduation theses, this study would try to figure out the plagiarism behaviors of the graduate students in writing theses about the technology acceptance model in Taiwan. In this study , we would like to find out the writing in 6 different dimensions. The description of the theory of the technology of acceptance model, the description of the the perceived usefulness, the description of the perceived ease of use, the description of external variables, the use of figure of theoretical framework and the use of the table of researches concerned. This study had chosen 226 graduation theses for sampled. Through using the content analysis, the major findings are as followed: (1) Plagiarism did happen in graduation theses in Taiwan (2) Most of what happened in all types of plagiarism behaviors is forming a new sentence without citing the source. (3) Students are lack of how to do a suitable writing , often forget to cite the sources and do not know it¡¦s necessary to write complete descriptions of whole variables. (4) Some students prefer to change what¡¦s in the figure of theoretical framework arbitrarily, and do not know it¡¦s necessary for citing the source of the figure.

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A review of research indicates that academic dishonesty is a common occurrence at all levels of education with high school being a significant determinant in whether one will engage in cheating at the college level. Current research is heavily concentrated on cheating at the college level. This study investigated the academic expectations of a high school and the frequency of academic dishonesty as reported by high school principals. Specifically, four research questions were addressed: 1. To what extent are the academic expectations of a high school related to the frequency of academic dishonesty as reported by high school administrators? 2. To what extent is the implementation of an honor code at a high school related to the frequency of academic dishonesty as reported by high school administrators? 3. What do high school administrators perceive as the most important causes of academic dishonesty? 4. To what degree do high school administrators perceive academic dishonesty as an important problem in high schools? This quantitative research study used a sample drawn from public high school administrators (principals or assistant principals) in the Commonwealth of Virginia. A total of 129 participants from a possible 267 public high schools were surveyed. There was no relationship found between the implementation of an honor code and the frequency of academic dishonesty. School administrators perceived the academic expectations of the school and teacher, the lack of an honor code, and the enforcement of an honor code as less likely to be contributing factors to academic dishonesty in comparison to other factors. The main causes for student cheating perceived by the principals were a fear of failure, laziness or procrastination and ease of cheating. Overall, the principals placed less importance upon academic dishonesty in comparison to other disciplinary problems they face at the high school level. / Ph. D.

<p>The question of what leads an individual to act dishonestly interests researchers, policy-makers, and lay-people alike. While a growing body of research suggests that dishonest behavior is typically limited, and reflects a balance of internal and external incentives, important questions remain unanswered. To what extent is honest behavior guided by stable, internal factors (i.e. moral character), and to what extent is it shaped by situational factors? This question is the subject of continuing and recently revived debate. To what extent do socio-cultural factors impact dishonesty, and to what extent is dishonesty universal? Casual observation suggests significant cross-cultural variation in terms of specific dishonest behaviors (e.g. soliciting bribes), but this source of variation has received little research attention. In five related research chapters encompassing three studies, I explore questions about character and culture using empirical research methods. Using a behavioral die task, I find similar patterns of dishonest behavior across individuals from different countries, though within-country differences are also observed. Using survey data, I find that internal sanctions are the most important deterrent of dishonesty across cultures. In addition, I find that that specific dishonest behaviors vary across cultures, and according to domains. Domain-specific dishonesty and socio-cultural influences are also evident in a study involving socially connected pairs of individuals. I conclude that dishonest tendencies may be best characterized as both universal and culturally sensitive. Furthermore, moral character may be construed as a multidimensional construct, expressed differently across different domains of life.</p> / Dissertation

Across four experiments, we show that when people can serve their self-interest, they are more likely to refrain from reporting the truth ( lie of omission) than actively lie ( lie of commission). We developed a novel online "Heads or Tails" task in which participants can lie to win a monetary prize. During the task, they are informed that the software is not always accurate, and it might provide incorrect feedback about their outcome. In Experiment 1, those in the omission condition received incorrect feedback informing them that they had won the game. Participants in commission condition were correctly informed that they had lost. Results indicated that when asked to report any errors in the detection of their payoff, participants in the omission condition cheated significantly more than those in the commission condition. Experiment 2 showed that this pattern of results is robust even when controlling for the perceived probability of the software error. Experiments 3 and 4 suggest that receiving incorrect feedback makes individuals feel more legitimate in withholding the truth, which, in turn, increases cheating.

The thesis presents the current knowledge in the fields of psychology and behavioral economics concerning areas of research of dishonest behavior and of effects of alcohol on human decision making. These two areas of interest are then combined in a form of a laboratory experiment, which demonstrates that the effect of expectation of alcohol, not alcohol itself, leads to increased levels of cheating in comparison to a control group.

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