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    This document discusses 12 lessons on academic fraud learned from analyzing the Harry Potter series through the lens of behavioral law and economics. Some of the key lessons are that academic fraud is widespread and takes many forms, there are many reasons why students commit fraud, and that moral flexibility and bounded morality can contribute to fraud. It also discusses the importance of situational factors and the architecture of choice in preventing fraud. The overall message is that a descriptive, flexible, and sustained approach to behavioral ethics that engages the whole school community is needed to address academic fraud.

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    This document discusses 12 lessons on academic fraud learned from analyzing the Harry Potter series through the lens of behavioral law and economics. Some of the key lessons are that academic fraud is widespread and takes many forms, there are many reasons why students commit fraud, and that moral flexibility and bounded morality can contribute to fraud. It also discusses the importance of situational factors and the architecture of choice in preventing fraud. The overall message is that a descriptive, flexible, and sustained approach to behavioral ethics that engages the whole school community is needed to address academic fraud.

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    Academic Fraud at Hogwarts

    Lessons from Behavioral Law and Economics for


    muggles of all ages

    Luzern – 17.04.15
    Means used for the analysis

     1. Harry Potter Series


    - School environment
    - Readers: students
    - Moral story
    - 2. Behavioral Law and Economics:
    empirical and psychological perspective
    - Fresh
    - Realistic
    Lesson n.º 1

     Academic Fraud is transversal.

    Ex. - TriWizard Tournament


    - Prof. Lockhart & Trelawney
    Lesson n.º 2

     Academic Fraud is plural and inventive.

    - Ex. cheating, plagiarism, ghostwritting,


    doping, fabrication, deception, personation
    - Ex. Baruffio’s Brain Elixir, Auto-Answer Quills
    Remembralls, Detachable Cribbing Cuffs and
    Self-Correcting Ink, Puking Pastilles
    Lesson n.º 3

     Multiple reasons for academic fraud

    - Ex. individual, demographic, situational,


    perceived pressure, perceived opportunity,
    rationalization (CBA)
    Lesson n.º 4

     Moral flexibility

    - In-group, out-group (contagion or restitution)


    - Consequences
    - Identity of the envolved

    - Ex. the bezoar episode


    Lesson n.º 5

     Moral discrepancy

    - The fudge factor (cheating vs self-


    perception)
    - Moral cleansing, compensation, comparison,
    memory loss

    - Ex. the bezoar episode


    Lesson n.º 6

     Bounded morality

    - Limits to a perfect cost-benefit behavior


    - Systematic bias (ex. Slippery slope,
    acceptability heuristic, induction
    mechanism/availability bias, brain system 1 –
    automatic cognition vs system 2 - reflexive)
    Lesson n.º 7

     There are very few truly rotten apples.


    Good people do bad things.

    - Ex. Harry, Dumbledore, Hagrid


    Lesson n.º 8

     Need of a new behavioral ethics

    - Descriptive (not normative nor prescritive)


    - Attends to perception and judgements
    - Flexible
    - Situational
    - Constant need of redefinition
    Lesson n.º 9

     The importance of the architecture of choice

    - diminishing the perceived opportunity of fraud (ex.


    anti-fraud measures, students policing)
    - diminishing the perceived pressure (ex.
    Dumbledore’s Humor)
    - Competition but unity (Houses – balance between
    ingroup and outgroup effects)
    - Moral saliency (ex. McGonagall speech before the
    OWL, Mirror of the Erased)
    Lesson n.º 10

     Need of sustained moral saliency

    - Framing
    - Ex. Ariely´s 10 commandments
    - Dumbledore (vs. Umbridge and the Carrow
    Brothers)
    Lesson n.º 11

     Importance of time to think.

    - Ex. Closing eyes


    - Horcruxes vs. Death Hallows
    Lesson n.º 12

     The envolvement of all the school


    community strengths responsability

    - Dumbledore, Teachers, Filch, Prefects,


    students (whistle blowers)
    Most important lesson

    “It is our choices...


    that show what we truly are,
    far more than our abilities.”
    Dumbledore
    Thank you!

    rutesaraiva@fd.ul.pt

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