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Selected Research Works

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Works in progress

Waltzer, T., Baxley, C., Bareket-Shavit, C., & Dahl, A. (in preparation). Copying from the internet: An investigation of college students’ decisions to plagiarize.

Waltzer, T., Bareket-Shavit, C., & Dahl, A. (under review). Are students taught what cheating is? Observations of classroom discussions about academic integrity. Studies in Higher Education.

Waltzer, T. & Dahl, A. (in press). Students’ perceptions and evaluations of plagiarism: Effects of text and context. Journal of Moral Education. doi:10.1080/03057240.2020.1787961 [PDF, SOM, OSF]

Waltzer, T., Samuelson, A., & Dahl, A. (accepted). Students’ reasoning about whether to report when others cheat: Conflict, confusion, and consequences. Journal of Academic Ethics. [PDF, SOM, OSF]

2021

Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2021). What’s wrong with plagiarizing? High school and college students’ reasoning about acts of copying. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, Virtual. [YouTube]

Modi, R., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2021). Why do so many students cheat in engineering? Perceptions, evaluations, and justifications. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, Virtual. [OSF]

2020

Waltzer, T., Samuelson, A., Wechsler-Azen, M., & Dahl, A. (2020). Beyond right and wrong: Exploring nuance in evaluative judgments. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, Princeton, NJ. [rescheduled to 2021 due to COVID-19]

Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2020). High school students’ experiences with academic dishonesty. Talk presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence biennial meeting, San Diego, CA. [abstract] [cancelled due to COVID-19]

Dahl, A. & Waltzer, T. (2020). Constraints on conventions: Resolving two puzzles of conventionality. Cognition, 196, 104152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104152 [PDF]

2019

Waltzer, T., Dahl, A., Samuelson, A., Chen, K., Baxley, C., & Bareket-Shavit, C. (2019). Narrowing the judgment-action gap: The case of student cheating. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, San Diego, CA. [PDF, handout]

Waltzer, T. & Dahl, A. (2019). Interviews about why students cheat: Implications for student success at UCSC. Talk at the SSERC Symposium academic integrity lightning talk. [slides]

2018

Dahl, A. & Waltzer, T. (2018). Moral disengagement as a psychological construct. American Journal of Psychology, 131, 240-246. [PDF]

Dahl, A., Chen, K., Samuelson, A., Serrano, M., Constanza, L., Peña, A., Baxley, C., & Waltzer, T. (2018). Student reasoning about real cases of cheating: A comparison of first-person and third-person perspectives. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. [PDF]

Bareket-Shavit, C., Baxley, C., Chen, K., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2018). Do teachers teach students what they need to learn about academic misconduct? Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. [PDF]

2017

Waltzer, T., Li, N., & Dahl, A. (2017). Why do students cheat? Exploring reasoning behind past experiences with academic dishonesty. Talk presented at the Annual Jean Piaget Society meeting, San Francisco, CA. [PPT]

Waltzer, T., Baxley, C., & Dahl, A. (2017). Adults’ reasoning about young children’s transgressions. Talk presented at the Annual Jean Piaget Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Baxley, C., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2017). Real-time decisions and explanations about plagiarism in a competitive essay task. Talk presented at the Annual Jean Piaget Society meeting, San Francisco, CA. [PPT]

Waltzer, T., Hari, K., Gonzalez, G., Berman, E., & Dahl, A. (2017). When and why is it wrong to copy from others? Variability in undergraduate students’ evaluations of plagiarism. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, Austin, TX. [PPT]

Li, N., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2017). Why do students cheat? Exploring reasoning behind past experiences with academic dishonesty. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, Austin, TX. [PDF]

2016

Waltzer, T. Berman, E., & Dahl, A. (2016). When and why is it wrong to copy from others? Variability in students’ evaluations of plagiarism. Talk presented at UCSC 12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. Santa Cruz, CA. [PPT]