Scandal
The name of the scandal where parents were "cheating" their kids into colleges and universities.
What is Varsity Blues?
The psychological reaction that occurs when one enjoys or gets excited from cheating or getting away with lying.
What is cheater's high?
The opinion one has that overestimate's their skills or expertise.
What is overconfidence bias?
Name of person who reports wrongdoings with sufficient evidence and belief.
What is a whistleblower?
The factor that relates to the size of punishment one would face from cheating and directly effects one's decision to cheat.
What is the magnitude of consequence?
What is Ernst & Young (EY)?
The effect that most likely played a part into parents justifying cheating their kids into college within the Varsity Blue's case and denying any feelings of guilt from cheating.
What is the rationalization effect?
Founder who suffered from overconfidence bias by attempting to treat his illness with complementary therapies rather than recommended surgery.
Who is Steve Jobs?
Action inherent in human behavior and will never fully be eliminated.
What is cheating?
(True of False) Temporal immediacy relates to the idea that people will disregard consequence if it is to be faced right after they commit unethical behavior.
The amount EY was fined as a penalty by the SEC for their employees getting caught cheating and for EY also not reporting the cheating.
What is 100 million dollars?
(True or False) With the loss aversion effect people prefer to gain something from cheating over cheating to prevent losing something of equal value.
What is false?
Gender most likely to violate societal norms.
What is man?
Actions investigators may perform to screen prospective employees for firms.
What are formal background checks, verifying transcripts, and evaluating content posted on social media?
Factor relating to how close one is to the people that would be affected by their moral decision.
What is proximity?
A celebrity closely tied to the Varsity Blues case.
Who is Lori Loughlin?
The effect that is oftentimes used before students are to take a proctored exam.
What is the denial of standards effect?
Gender in which risk aversion is higher.
What is woman?
Inspection that can be done spontaneously to ensure firms are behaving ethically.
What is a random audit?
Community agreement of right or wrong that can change dependent on the type of people within the community.
What is social consensus?
The year in which the Varsity Blues Operation was conducted.
What is 2019?
Effect that explains how "cheating fever" can spread like wildfire.
What is the copycat effect?
The frequency of deceptive behavior is correlated to the size of a specie's outer brain layer (the neocortex). Name the primate with the biggest neocortex.
What are humans?
Software often used in classrooms to prevent students from cheating online.
What is lockdown browser?
Many people will justify that hurting a number of people with less impact is better than hurting one person with significant impact. The factor in which this proves to be true.
What is the concentration of effect?