Academic Integrity in the Social Sciences

Dr Guy Curtis is an Associate Professor in Applied Psychology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Australia. Dr Curtis has been working as a full-time academic since graduating with a PhD in psychology in 2002, and he has been actively researching academic integrity since 2004. He has published over 45 journal articles, including research charting trends and prevalence in academic misconduct and predictors of academic misconduct, and is a co-editor of the book Contract Cheating in Higher Education. Dr Curtis’s academic integrity research has been published in top-tier journals such as Studies in Higher Education, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, and Higher Education Research & Development. Dr Curtis has been recognised as a leader in academic integrity advocacy and scholarship. He was contracted by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA, Australia) as part of an expert team to provide national workshops and an academicintegrity toolkit in Australia in 2019-2020. He is a multi-award-winning university teacher and in 2021 he was awarded the inaugural Studiosity Tracey Bretag Prize for his outstanding commitment to advancing the understanding and implementation of academic integrity.

• Series Editors’ Note.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1 Do students follow the wisdom or the madness of crowds? (Guy J. Curtis).- Chapter 2. Removing the ‘opportunity’ for academic misconduct: A criminology-based framework for preventing academic integrity problems (Joseph Clare).- Chapter 3. Moral frameworks for approaching academic integrity (Frances An).- Chapter 4. Lies, lies, lies: Detecting deception and implications for investigations of academic cheating (Brenda M. Stoesz).- Chapter 5. Capitalising on emotions and emotional regulation: Five strategies to improve academic integrity (Holly E. Tatum & Guy J. Curtis).- Chapter 6. Developing and implementing policies for academic integrity: Management of change (Irene Glendinning).- Chapter 7. Evaluating the impact of implemented academic integrity policy on creative works (Stella-Maris Orim & Anirejuoritse Awala-Ale).- Chapter 8. Conducting academic integrity research with undergraduates (David A. Rettinger).- Chapter9. A pedagogy for teaching research ethics and integrity in the social sciences (Erika Löfström & Anu Tammeleht).- Chapter 10. Researching academic integrity: Application of social sciences research methods (Inga Gaižauskaitė & Natalija Valavičienė).- Chapter 11. Academic Integrity as a way to promote workplace ethical behavior (Jean Gabriel Guerrero-Dib, Luis Portales, Daniela Gallego).- Chapter 12. Tactics of scholarly abuse (Brian Martin).- Chapter 13. Academic Integrity through the Lens of Informality (Elena Denisova-Schmidt).- Chapter 14. The ‘Patrick Matthew Effect’ in science (Mike Sutton & Mark Griffiths).- Afterword: The future of academic integrity and the social sciences.- Index.