What would cause an otherwise honest student to plagiarize?

Answer 1

The complete collapse of honor, decency and ethics in the society around you. If, from the president on down, to religious leaders and churches, business leaders and the corporate pillaging, down to the local level, dare I say even here on yahoo answers, all we hear about are rats abandoning the social contract, what is to inspire an otherwise honest student to remain honest?

Answer 2

Well, when you have studied and studied and studied for something, and you still aren't getting the test questions right, you are tempted to look at other people's answers. After all, you spent all those hours studying, and is it right for you to do poorly?

And if there is too much homework and other things that the student has to worry about, they might plagiarize.

Answer 3

The pressure of always having to be the best and no time to complete all the work.

Answer 4

honesty barely has to do anything with cheating/plagarizing. mostly it has to deal with stress, laziness and pressure to achieve. it's very tempting to do it when you want an A in a hard class.

Answer 5

She is right, dont pile it on so much.. i know what that is like.... It is really hard, especially now, there are so many distractions..

Answer 6

high expectations they don't think they're capable of doing or not enough time to

Answer 7

insecurity maybe... thinking that your answer is wrong, so they check it with something else, but its worded better there... so they take it.

Answer 8

Too much work, too little time.

Answer 9

laziness