Dan Ariely: Why Do Students Cheat?

Cheating means acting dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain a benefit, in achieving a task or acing an exam. Many factors can affect why many students choose to cheat. First, the temptation of being able to take just a few lines from the Internet can be convincing. Second, achieving better grades, Students will tend to cheat in various ways to give themselves a boost grade in a class. Third, work load and pressure, Students will turn to cheating to lighten the homework load which often takes many hours to complete. In this ted talk, Dan Ariely mentioned two common reasons for his argument. According to Dan Ariely, people tend to cheat if they justify their reason to do so, or when they are surrounded by people who also cheat. And also to gain benefit in a test students can tend to cheat.

Yes, I agree with Ariely’s ideas that students can choose to cheat because they saw another in their group cheat or because they want a faster way to finish a test or exam and get a good result knowing that they would not be caught.

Group work when The examples we see on T.V for people cheating influence of people around us when we see people students just like us cheat we tend to cheat more bad people cheat we tend to cheat less. Our environment We tend to cheat because sometimes it is easier for us less time less pain
Justification Another common reason that students cheat is because other students cheat. More students may end up cheating if they discover the head of the class is cheating, as it shows that people who cheat will get better grades. It is generally accepted that everyone cheats at some point, so it is not discouraged among peers. Some things that can affect cheating habits
Honor codes-students continue to cheat because they can get away with it. People cheating give them a negative impression of themselves as a "cheater" so they tend to cheat less. In such circumstance, we tend to convince ourselves that what we do is not entirely wrong. Two forces a little bit cheat, but still feel good. As long as it does not change their impression about themselves.
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Intuition, the ability to understand something immediately, with the need for conscious reasoning
A thing that one knows or considers likely from an instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning, willing to check these intuitions “we are not going to do better”