cheating in publications--self or others?

Cheating in publications--self or others?

Self and Others

more intelligible parts deal, vividly at times, with exchanges between people. A number of passages show valuable insight and at times the author writes clearly, simply and with great power. At other times the content evades understanding; or else it consists of poetic sequences of words. Consider the following: 'My selfbeing, my consciousness and feeling of myself, that taste of myself, of I a...

Tax Evasion: Cheating Rationally or Deciding Emotionally?

Tax Evasion: Cheating Rationally or Deciding Emotionally? The economic models of tax compliance predict that individuals should evade taxes when the expected benefit of cheating is greater than its expected cost. When this condition is fulfilled, the high compliance however observed remains a puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions as a possible explanation of tax compliance....

Self – Others Rating Discrepancy of Task and Contextual Performance

This research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. Participants were service industry employees in the service industries in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A Sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. The results indicated th...

Cheating or ‘Collaborative Work’: Does it Pay?

Being a distance education institution, our current infrastructure does not allow group or collaborative work on undergraduate level. Although students are allowed to work together and assist each other, each student is required to submit individual attempts for assignments and/or projects. Assignments that are so similar that we could not accept them as individual attempts are considered cheat...

Cheating Cheating Detectors

In this paper we present a new cheating technique that is successful at defeating cheating detectors and could become popular with students. The idea is to use obfuscating code transformations (such as those found in the SANDMARK tool) to apply a sequence of minor code transformations to a copied programming assignment. This purpose is to produce a copy that will defeat detection. We show that ...