Topic > Plagiarism and Academic Integrity - 613

In today's education, plagiarism and academic integrity have become a problem. While it's easy to avoid being dishonest and plagiarizing by simply giving credit to the sources you use, many people don't do this for their own reasons. However, now there are even more consequences to this problem. “Rather fail honorably than succeed deceitfully” (Sophocles, n.d.). While this quote should be applied to everyday life in general, it has become a constant theme and issue in education today as it pertains to academic integrity. In particular, the article that will be discussed deals with the academic integrity of psychological research. Summary According to the article, the academic integrity of psychological research has become a growing problem. An example of this problem discussed in the article concerns Diederik Stapel, a published psychologist from Tilburg University. According to the article "he was found to have committed widespread academic fraud, which called into question his well-publicized findings on a variety of psychological topics, including racial stereotypy"....