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Associations between academic dishonesty and personality: A pre-registered multilevel meta-analysis

24 Academic dishonesty—the inclination to cheat, fabricate, falsify, and plagiarize in an 25 academic context—is a highly prevalent problem with dire consequences for society. The 26 present meta-analysis systematically examined associations between academic dishonesty 27 and personality traits of the Big Five, the HEXACO model, Machiavellianism, narcissism, 28 subclinical psychopathy, and the Dark Core. We provide an update and extension of the only 29 meta-analysis on this topic by Giluk and Postlethwaite (2015), synthesizing in total 89 effect 30 sizes from 50 studies—containing 38,189 participants from 23 countries. Multilevel meta31 analytical modelling showed that academic dishonesty was positively correlated with the dark 32 traits, and negatively correlated with openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and 33 honesty-humility. The moderate-to-high effect size heterogeneity—ranging from I2 = 57% to 34 91%—could only be partially explained by moderator analyses. The observed relationships 35 appear robust with respect to publication bias and measurement error, and can be generalized 36 to a surprisingly large scope (across sexes, continents, scales, and study quality). Future 37 research needs to examine these associations with validated and more nuanced scales for 38 academic dishonesty. 39