ABSTRACT
The social learning variables are expected to be significantly related to frequency of cheating behavior both contemporaneously and longitudinally. The social learning model offers a framework in which to examine workplace supervisors' decisions to respond to certain problems of deviance on the job by referring workers for help. Social learning theory posits that the same general process is at work in both conforming and deviant behavior. In social learning theory, one's own definitions or attitudes toward some behavior are learned through differential association with the norms and attitudes of others and through differential reinforcement. The psychiatric and extra-psychiatric variables in mental health decisions are analogous to the legal and extralegal variables that are frequently the objects of research on the law and the criminal-justice system. Thus, it would seem that the social learning perspective could be extended to account for decisions in the law and the criminal-justice system.
