Understanding unconscious plagiarism: the effects of idea elaboration and perceived idea quality on later recall and recognition of ideas

Authors

Rachel Elliman, University of Plymouth

Document Type

Project Article

Abstract

Previous research has shown that idea improvement and perceived idea quality have differential effects on recall-own and generate-new plagiarism. Participants completed a generative task in pairs and read some ideas perceived to be of high quality before elaborating on a selection of the ideas. It was expected that other-generated ideas that had been improved or read out loud would be more susceptible to unconscious plagiarism. Participants returned a week later to complete recall-own generated, recall-own read, generate-new and source monitoring tasks. Partner-generated ideas were significantly more likely to be plagiarised following improvement only. Participants were significantly more likely to plagiarise their partner’s ideas in the generate-new task. These findings are discussed in relation to previous research and theories of unconscious plagiarism.

Publication Date

2009-12-01

Publication Title

The Plymouth Student Scientist

Volume

2

Issue

2

First Page

106

Last Page

126

ISSN

1754-2383

Deposit Date

May 2019

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Elliman, Rachel (2009) "Understanding unconscious plagiarism: the effects of idea elaboration and perceived idea quality on later recall and recognition of ideas," The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 2: Iss. 2, Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24382/bh8z-5996
Available at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol2/iss2/13