Loneliness as impetus, isolation as inertia: Reporting cheating peers in business school

Business education scholarship has explored cheating behavior as a function of demographics, culture, personality, and other factors. Expanding current knowledge on the topic, the authors provide the first known empirical investigation of two negatively valenced psychosocial conditions—social loneliness and social isolation—in relation to students’ decisions to (not) report their peers’ cheating behaviors. Surveying 231 graduate business...