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What Makes People Cheat ☆ @ 0 O File Edit View Tools Help Request edit access What Makes People Cheat? Cheaters seem to be everywhere these days - in sports, in corporate boardrooms, and in the highest levels of government. By R. Morgan Griffin Are you a cheater? You may not think so. Sure, you may not be perfect, but you probably consider yourself a reasonably honest citizen. But think harder. In high school or college, did you ever swipe a paper off the Internet and hand it in as your own? Ever padded your resume with a misleading or outright false job description? Have you taken an extra deduction or two on your taxes, maybe writing off a dinner with friends as a business expense? Do you really pay for that deluxe cable line-up, or is your hook-up not quite legit? If you're guilty of any of these sins, you're not alone. Experts in many different fields -- education, sports, and law, for instance -- believe that cheating has become more common and more accepted in recent years. "We've got scientists and professors who cheat, journalists who cheat, lawyers who cheat, and CEOS who cheat," says Charles Yesalis, MPH,

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LT docs.google.com Bb b Answered: What were t... CL1: Article "What mak... Crossroads: Labor Pai... Summary "Why do peo... O Writing an article SUM... What Makes People C... D (901) Doja Cat - Say S... What Makes People Cheat * a 0 Request edit access Share File Edit View Tools Help 31 What Makes People Cheat? Cheaters seem to be everywhere these days -- in sports, in corporate boardrooms, and in the highest levels of government. By R. Morgan Griffin Are you a cheater? You may not think so. Sure, you may not be perfect, but you probably consider yourself a reasonably honest citizen. But think harder. In high school or college, did you ever swipe a paper off the Internet and hand it in as your own? Ever padded your resume with a misleading or outright false job description? Have you taken an extra deduction or two on your taxes, maybe writing off a dinner with friends as a business expense? Do you really pay for that deluxe cable line-up, or is your hook-up not quite legit? If you're guilty of any of these sins, you're not alone. Experts in many different fields -- education, sports, and law, for instance -- believe that cheating has become more common and more accepted in recent years. "We've got scientists and professors who cheat, journalists who cheat, lawyers who cheat, and CEOS who cheat," says Charles Yesalis, MPH, ScD, a professor of health and human development at Pennsylvania State University. It seems like everybody's doing it. If cheating is more common, the question is, why are we more likely to cheat than previous generations? And what does cheating do to us? How does it harm our society, our families, and ourselves? Is Cheating Really Worse These Days? Experts say some amount of cheating is inevitable in any culture. When the first human beings set out the first rules for ethical behavior, there was no doubt some scheming wretch who started working out ways to bend them. But levels of cheating in a society can rise or fall, says David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead and co-founder of the public policy center Demos. He and other experts think that they're on the rise. It's hard to find definitive numbers to establish that cheating is more common across the board -- after all, can you trust a survey of liars? But there are good surveys of academic dishonesty, and the results are not reassuring. "Over the long haul, there's certainly been an increase in cheating [in school]," says Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School and founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity. Some of McCabe's own surveys of college students have shown a 30%-35% increase in some types of cheating during the 1990s. +
Transcribed Image Text:LT docs.google.com Bb b Answered: What were t... CL1: Article "What mak... Crossroads: Labor Pai... Summary "Why do peo... O Writing an article SUM... What Makes People C... D (901) Doja Cat - Say S... What Makes People Cheat * a 0 Request edit access Share File Edit View Tools Help 31 What Makes People Cheat? Cheaters seem to be everywhere these days -- in sports, in corporate boardrooms, and in the highest levels of government. By R. Morgan Griffin Are you a cheater? You may not think so. Sure, you may not be perfect, but you probably consider yourself a reasonably honest citizen. But think harder. In high school or college, did you ever swipe a paper off the Internet and hand it in as your own? Ever padded your resume with a misleading or outright false job description? Have you taken an extra deduction or two on your taxes, maybe writing off a dinner with friends as a business expense? Do you really pay for that deluxe cable line-up, or is your hook-up not quite legit? If you're guilty of any of these sins, you're not alone. Experts in many different fields -- education, sports, and law, for instance -- believe that cheating has become more common and more accepted in recent years. "We've got scientists and professors who cheat, journalists who cheat, lawyers who cheat, and CEOS who cheat," says Charles Yesalis, MPH, ScD, a professor of health and human development at Pennsylvania State University. It seems like everybody's doing it. If cheating is more common, the question is, why are we more likely to cheat than previous generations? And what does cheating do to us? How does it harm our society, our families, and ourselves? Is Cheating Really Worse These Days? Experts say some amount of cheating is inevitable in any culture. When the first human beings set out the first rules for ethical behavior, there was no doubt some scheming wretch who started working out ways to bend them. But levels of cheating in a society can rise or fall, says David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead and co-founder of the public policy center Demos. He and other experts think that they're on the rise. It's hard to find definitive numbers to establish that cheating is more common across the board -- after all, can you trust a survey of liars? But there are good surveys of academic dishonesty, and the results are not reassuring. "Over the long haul, there's certainly been an increase in cheating [in school]," says Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School and founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity. Some of McCabe's own surveys of college students have shown a 30%-35% increase in some types of cheating during the 1990s. +
Yesalis has studied the use of performance-enhancing drugs in athletes for more than 25 years and worked as a consultant for the U.S. Olympic Committee, the NCAA, the NFL, and many other organizations. He says the problem has only gotten worse and worse. "For the last 20 or 30 years, we've had this idea that there are only a few bad apples in the barrel," Yesalis tells WebMD. "But in reality, in many, many different sports, there are only a few good apples." There's also plenty of anecdotal evidence on the nightly news. There's the respected historian Stephen Ambrose using numerous passages from other authors. There's Jack Kelley, an award-winning reporter for USA Today, who wrote hair-raising stories about risking his life again and again -- witnessing a suicide bombing and escaping pursuit by Chechen thugs, for instance. He said that God was looking out for him; his editors settled on the more mundane explanation that Kelly made the stories up. There's also Danny Almonte, the 14-year-old Little Leaguer who pretended to be 12, and this year's story about the Balco investigation, which implicates six Olympic athletes in a doping scandal. We've also got Martha Stewart, Enron, and politicians who have been caught lying to the American public. Why Do We Cheat? Some people cheat to become famous. Take Rosie Ruiz, who for a short time was the women's winner of the 1980 Boston marathon. But it turned out -- although Ruiz denied it -- that she hadn't run the race at all and had probably sneaked in 1/2 a mile from the finish line. According to most experts, Ruiz is the anomaly -- most cheaters aren't usually looking for that kind of public attention. Instead, people cheat to keep up, or to get by. That's why a college student who downloads a plagiarized paper off the Internet doesn't want an A paper, he wants a B paper. He's not cheating in school to win an essay contest; he just wants to pass the class and move on. Callahan argues that our nation's emphasis on getting rich -- coupled with fear of financial insecurity -- has "Societies [that place] the greatest emphasis on getting rich while having the fewest avenues to get rich in a legitimate fashion tend to be societies with the greatest amount of cheating," says Callahan. while there are plenty of legitimate opportunities to get rich in the U.S., Callahan observes that they don't extend equally to everyone. He sees a nation that's obsessed with getting rich and terrified of losing out. We've been encouraged to think in Darwinian terms: We're all in a desperate struggle against each other to make it to the top. Failure is disastrous. Experts note that the pressure starts when we're young. For some parents, not getting their child into the right preschool -- let alone college -- supposedly spells social and economic ruin. High school students are encouraged fret relentlessly about college. They're pushed by their parents to get perfect grades, play sports, join a dozen extracurricular clubs, and take up esoteric hobbies or rare musical instruments in order to stand out to admissions officers. "For young people, the pressure is greater than ever, and the competition is greater than ever," Callahan tells WebMD. It makes cheating in school an attractive option, he says. That pressure doesn't let up when people get out of school. Many people feel insecure in their jobs and worry about the future. If staying afloat takes a little cheating, many people are willing to do it.
Transcribed Image Text:Yesalis has studied the use of performance-enhancing drugs in athletes for more than 25 years and worked as a consultant for the U.S. Olympic Committee, the NCAA, the NFL, and many other organizations. He says the problem has only gotten worse and worse. "For the last 20 or 30 years, we've had this idea that there are only a few bad apples in the barrel," Yesalis tells WebMD. "But in reality, in many, many different sports, there are only a few good apples." There's also plenty of anecdotal evidence on the nightly news. There's the respected historian Stephen Ambrose using numerous passages from other authors. There's Jack Kelley, an award-winning reporter for USA Today, who wrote hair-raising stories about risking his life again and again -- witnessing a suicide bombing and escaping pursuit by Chechen thugs, for instance. He said that God was looking out for him; his editors settled on the more mundane explanation that Kelly made the stories up. There's also Danny Almonte, the 14-year-old Little Leaguer who pretended to be 12, and this year's story about the Balco investigation, which implicates six Olympic athletes in a doping scandal. We've also got Martha Stewart, Enron, and politicians who have been caught lying to the American public. Why Do We Cheat? Some people cheat to become famous. Take Rosie Ruiz, who for a short time was the women's winner of the 1980 Boston marathon. But it turned out -- although Ruiz denied it -- that she hadn't run the race at all and had probably sneaked in 1/2 a mile from the finish line. According to most experts, Ruiz is the anomaly -- most cheaters aren't usually looking for that kind of public attention. Instead, people cheat to keep up, or to get by. That's why a college student who downloads a plagiarized paper off the Internet doesn't want an A paper, he wants a B paper. He's not cheating in school to win an essay contest; he just wants to pass the class and move on. Callahan argues that our nation's emphasis on getting rich -- coupled with fear of financial insecurity -- has "Societies [that place] the greatest emphasis on getting rich while having the fewest avenues to get rich in a legitimate fashion tend to be societies with the greatest amount of cheating," says Callahan. while there are plenty of legitimate opportunities to get rich in the U.S., Callahan observes that they don't extend equally to everyone. He sees a nation that's obsessed with getting rich and terrified of losing out. We've been encouraged to think in Darwinian terms: We're all in a desperate struggle against each other to make it to the top. Failure is disastrous. Experts note that the pressure starts when we're young. For some parents, not getting their child into the right preschool -- let alone college -- supposedly spells social and economic ruin. High school students are encouraged fret relentlessly about college. They're pushed by their parents to get perfect grades, play sports, join a dozen extracurricular clubs, and take up esoteric hobbies or rare musical instruments in order to stand out to admissions officers. "For young people, the pressure is greater than ever, and the competition is greater than ever," Callahan tells WebMD. It makes cheating in school an attractive option, he says. That pressure doesn't let up when people get out of school. Many people feel insecure in their jobs and worry about the future. If staying afloat takes a little cheating, many people are willing to do it.
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