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Faking it Even After you Make it? Exploring How Organizational Lay Theories of Intelligence Impact Cheating on Difficult Tasks

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dc.contributor Murphy, Mary C
dc.creator Emerson, Katherine Tegzes Urbanic
dc.date 2015-06-24T07:23:19Z
dc.date 2015-06-24T07:23:19Z
dc.date 2015-06
dc.date 2015
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-21T11:19:57Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-21T11:19:57Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2022/20231
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/253032
dc.description Thesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Psychology, 2015
dc.description Organizational lay theories of intelligence (i.e., beliefs shared within an organization about the nature of intelligence) have been found to play an important role in shaping people’s experiences and behavior within particular settings (Emerson & Murphy, 2015a; Murphy & Dweck, 2010). In three studies, I investigated whether an organization’s entity (i.e., intelligence is fixed) or incremental (i.e., intelligence is malleable) lay theory might impact people’s cheating behavior in a demanding testing context. Results revealed that people tended to cheat more in the entity (vs. incremental) environment after failing to meet a high performance standard. In Study 2, participants perceived cheating to be more common in the entity (vs. incremental) organization and that the entity organization endorsed performance-avoidance goals more and mastery goals less; yet, these perceptions did not statistically mediate participants’ cheating. In Study 3, participants cheated more in the entity (vs. incremental) context even after being praised for their past performance; notably, the type of praise that participants received influenced the particular cheating strategy they employed.
dc.language en
dc.publisher [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University
dc.subject achievement goals
dc.subject cheating
dc.subject organizational lay theories of intelligence
dc.subject organizational norms
dc.subject praise
dc.subject self-esteem
dc.subject Social psychology
dc.title Faking it Even After you Make it? Exploring How Organizational Lay Theories of Intelligence Impact Cheating on Difficult Tasks
dc.type Doctoral Dissertation


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