Alleged Plagiarism Spanning Two Decades

[Terie]

Originally Posted by Old Hack

According to the Facebook page set up about this, her PhD thesis has been checked by an appropriate academic and one chapter was (I think) more than 50% plagiarised. At that point they stopped checking.

Do they strip PhDs from people whose theses turn out to be plagiarised?

[Old Hack]

Apparently.

[Diana_Rajchel]

Originally Posted by Susan Littlefield

I want to say plagiarism stems from a lack of self-confidence to be able to produce you own stories, but I think it goes way deeper than that. However, I wonder if it actually stems from narcissism. After all, people who plagiarize think they can get away with it, otherwise they would not do it. Or, maybe they are just trying to get caught.

I've actually been curious as to the actual pathology of plagiarism. Once you rule out people that do it because of just the right combination of laziness/desperation (a college grade at stake, or a need to publish to keep a job, usually) the people left have very little to gain from plagiarizing and often enough even after they get caught, they do it again. The recidivism is what suggests there's something more to the picture.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Diana_Rajchel

I've actually been curious as to the actual pathology of plagiarism. Once you rule out people that do it because of just the right combination of laziness/desperation (a college grade at stake, or a need to publish to keep a job, usually) the people left have very little to gain from plagiarizing and often enough even after they get caught, they do it again. The recidivism is what suggests there's something more to the picture.

I think the psychology is something akin to 'gambling addict'.