Dishonesty in the Classroom: The Effect of Cognitive Dissonance and the Mitigating Influence of Religious Commitment

A controlled experiment was conducted with a cohort of graduate accounting students, which involved a mild form of deception during a class ethics quiz. One of the answers to a difficult question was inadvertently revealed by a visiting scholar, which allowed students an opportunity to use the answe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Woodbine, Gordon, Amirthalingam, Vimala
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Netherlands 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18663