Associate Professor of Psychological Science David Rettinger was quoted about why student cheat in a column in the Indiana Evening News and Tribune. “Cheating is contagious,” said Rettinger who told columnist Terry Cheating is contagious.
that seeing other students cheat disinhibits and increases the tendency to cheat. Rettinger also is president of the International Center for Academic Integrity, which aims to combat cheating, plagiarism and academic dishonesty. View the article “A cheatin’ heart” at