Interesting study! Do you think that the COVID environment with the prevalence of online classes somehow affected your study? And do you think that these circumstances, along with the fact that your participants were freshmen and had most likely not been subjected to as much info on the UMW Honor Code as they would have with in-person classes, had any affect on your results?

You guys did a wonderful job and I absolutely love your topic as it is so relevant! I think when you ask the average person if cheating is wrong, they will most likely always say yes, but when you bring up certain scenarios like a bad professor, grade dependency, and other circumstances, neutralizing attitudes can occur. I totally understand why you guys would think low cheating information would lead participants not to cheat as much and high cheating information would make more of them feel okay to cheat. I think this study would highly benefit from being replicated in a classroom where students can see the cheating or lack thereof to form that information for themselves. Maybe this environmental change could provide you all with significant results! Overall, awesome job you guys!

I thought you all did a great study! Great job guys!

This study was fascinating, and you all presented very well! I think understanding why students justify cheating is something that teachers and professors question. I love the idea of using vignettes for an online study! If you had been in person, do you think that vignettes would still be the way to go, or would you have done a different design?

Great job with this project! I think that a lot of people could have not answered your questions 100% honestly and maybe having class online during COVID could’ve really affected your data. Do you think because most of your participants were first years (and because of COVID) they did not know if their peers cheated or not because they had not built that relationship with them like they would’ve during a normal school year?

Interesting study, well executed! It is interesting that the prevalence messages were largely ignored. I wonder if one’s own predisposition to cheat or not cheat ends up being the lens through which we predict the behavior of others

I definitely believe that this is something that is absolutely becoming a widespread issue especially with the current COVID environment we have been in for the past year and a half. As Rachel had said I agree that with it being a online study, I believe some people may lie on some points, but with the model of your study and results that you collected I am still quite surprised that the prevalence did no affect either of the dependent variables.

Hi! This was a really interesting study and definitely brings up a lot of good points surrounding the motivation for cheating. I think this study would be interesting to replicate once we go back to in person and people are actually in the classroom environment instead of the online classroom where cheating has become much more prevalent. I also wonder if it would have changed the perception of their peers as they would actually be in the same room. Overall really interesting topic!

This was fascinating! I wonder if the statements would have a larger effect on younger students in elementary and middle school since those children are more impressionable than college students. Great study! Thank you for sharing!