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Two hundred twenty college students volunteered to complete questionnaires to measure Type A behavior, academic dishonesty, and classroom orientation. The present data replicated and extended a previous report (Weiss, Gilbert, Giordano, & Davis, 1993) by showing that learning orientation, lower levels of academic dishonesty, and Type A characteristics were positively related. Conversely, grade orientation, Type B characteristics, and higher levels of academic dishonesty were positively related.
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Huss, M.T., Curnyn, J.P., Roberts, S.L. et al. Hard driven but not dishonest: Cheating and the Type A personality. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 429–430 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334952
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