Three percent of parents said they believed their children had used a phone to cheat in school, whereas 76 percent of parents said cheating via smart phone happens at their child’s school.
“And parents say this knowing full well their kids have their cell phones on them at all times,” Restaino said.
The UBC researchers published their findings last December, charging that people – not just high school or college students – are far more likely to lie when texting, or to use phones while lying.
Ninety-five percent of respondents to the UBC survey said they felt more deceived in text messages than in video chats, while three in 10 said they were more likely to be deceived through text rather than face to face.
“Our results confirm that the more anonymous the technology allows a person to be in a communications exchange, the more likely they are to become morally lax,” said Karl Aquino, a UBC professor and a coauthor of the research.
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