People sometimes lie by omitting information. The information lie tellers then report could be entirely truthful. We examined whether the truthful information that lie tellers report in omission lies contains verbal cues indicating that the person is lying. We made a distinction between (i) essential information (events surrounding the omission)…

This opinion article discusses the ethical issues with revealing journal article reviewer credentials through social media and whether these constitute misconduct. It emphasizes the importance of peer review to ensure the quality of research communication, different peer review approaches, and relevance of adhering to ethical standards set forth…

Successful psychotherapy often depends on therapist self-disclosure. However, training programs in social work and counseling have had difficulty adding therapist self-disclosure to their curricula. This article advances a teaching technique -- the comparison of two widely viewed, well-received films, "Ordinary People" and "Good…

Background: Parents of children who stutter (CWS) are often uncertain, hesitant and uncomfortable to communicate openly with their CWS and other people on the topic of the stutter and disclosing the stutter to the child and/or other people. Aims: To map and understand the dynamics involved when parents communicate with their CWS and other people…

Academic integrity is a critical ethical issue in the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for writing assistance. Disclosure of AI-generated content is essential to maintain the authenticity and reliability of information. This study employs a moderated mediation model to examine the mediating role of AI ethics attention in the…

Academic dishonesty and counterproductive student behaviors are an ongoing concern in higher education. Over the years, multiple methods to promote student integrity have been proposed, including the use of honor codes. Collegiate honor systems, which make students collectively responsible for campus integrity, are sometimes paired with mandatory…

This article is personal and rather anecdotal as it is an attempt to sum up my experience of 30 years of Ofsted inspections. The key questions remain what they always were. How do you deal with the sometimes conflicting requirements of support and accountability, objectivity and impartiality, styles of inspection, reporting and grading? Perhaps…

Schools work with large numbers of young people, some of whom appear to have more noticeable needs than others. In a busy environment, it can be easy to notice and respond to those needs, while others may be missed or assumed to be less relevant. This can create situations where there are some young people that schools should be very concerned…

An increasing number of people receive autism diagnoses in adulthood, and there are few studies investigating autistic adults' experiences of disclosing their diagnosis. This study sought to understand autistic adults' experiences of diagnostic disclosure using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Twelve autistic adults, who received their…

The ethics of citation has attracted increased attention in recent discussions of research and publication ethics, fraud and plagiarism. Little attempt has been made, however, to situate specific citation misbehaviors in terms of broader ethical practices and principles. To investigate researchers' perceptions of citation norms, we surveyed active…

Background: Sexual violence against women with intellectual disabilities is complex and often underreported due to systemic, social, and cultural barriers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the cultural conditions regarding the sexuality of women with intellectual disabilities that significantly limit the disclosure of sexual violence…

In the literature, there is a general assumption that teachers teach more effectively during team teaching compared with solo teaching. Although effective teaching behaviour is imperative for students' academic outcomes, only scarce research exists on this difference. Therefore, it remains mainly unknown whether teachers teach more effectively…

In US anatomical gift law, the record on which a person consents to body donation after death is referred to as a document of gift (DG). Due to the lack of legal requirements around minimum information standards, enacted recommendations in the United States, and the unknown variation across extant DGs, a review of publicly-available DGs from US…

The past few years have seen a shift in many universities' admission policies from test-required to either test-optional or test-blind. This paper uses laboratory experiments to examine students' reporting behavior given their application package and the school's interpretation of non-reported standardized test scores. We find that voluntary…

Objective: Much is known about how alcohol increases the risk of sexual assault or intimate partner violence victimization during college. This research qualitatively explores perceptions about how alcohol influences "disclosures about these events" to informal supports. Participants: Participants included college students who received a…