ABSTRACT
This chapter presents what is known about the correlates of cheating. When social scientists speak of correlates, they mean those variables-personal attributes, background characteristics, or situational factors-that have been shown to be related in some way to one or more other variables. In the literature on correlates of cheating, some researchers have referred to these variables as determinants of cheating. This term, however, connotes that cheating on tests is predestined or causally linked to factors that may or may not be under the test taker’s control. To avoid this deterministic implication, I use the term correlates throughout this chapter, regardless of how the variables have been described in the original research.
