Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Psychology Department

Title Graduate Student

Affiliation Staff

Web Site

Primary Office Location Social Sciences 2
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Additional Location(s) https://ucsc.zoom.us/my/talia.waltzer (Passcode: 1)

Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop Psychology Faculty Services

Research Interests

Research interests include learning; explanations; belief formation; moral cognition

Teaching Interests

Ethics; development; cognitive science; philosophy; psychology

Also, getting students involved in research. If you have done a research project and would like to present it at UCSC, check out our symposium: SURU. If you have questions about research, please contact me.

Awards, Honors and Grants

Grants
2022-2024. Learning about cheating from teachers and peers: Naturalistic and experimental evidence from high schools ($138,000). National Science Foundation – Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. PI. Co-PI: G. D. Heyman. Co-I: K. Lee.

Awards
2021-2022. Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship ($24,000), Division of Social Sciences, UCSC
2021. Summer Support Grant ($1,500), Psychology Department, UCSC
2021. Graduate Student Cultivation Award, Graduate Student Association, UCSC
2020-2021. Chancellor’s Campus Fellow Award ($32,000), Division of Graduate Studies, UCSC
2020. Dissertation Fellowship ($6,000), Psychology Department, UCSC
2019. Diversity Award, Society for Philosophy and Psychology
2018. Graduate Research Internship ($8,000), Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, UCSC
2018. Summer Research Award ($2,400), Psychology Department, UCSC
2016-2021. Graduate Research Fund ($3,500), Psychology Department, UCSC
2016-2018. Travel Grant ($1,500), Graduate Student Association, UCSC
2016. Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2015-2016. Chancellor’s Fellowship ($24,000), Division of Graduate Studies, UCSC

Selected Presentations

 Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2021). Academic integrity at UCSC: Science, practice, and policy. Talk presented at the 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA.

 Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2021). What’s wrong with plagiarizing? High school and college students’ reasoning about acts of copying. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, Virtual.

 Modi, R., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2021). Why do so many students cheat in engineering? Perceptions, evaluations, and justifications. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting, Virtual.

 Waltzer, T. (2021). Social Domain Theory in action: The case of academic cheating. Talk presented at the Social Domain Theory SRCD preconference, Virtual.

 Waltzer, T., Samuelson, A., Wechsler-Azen, M., & Dahl, A. (2020). Beyond right and wrong: Exploring nuance in evaluative judgments. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, Princeton, NJ. [rescheduled for 2021]

 Waltzer, T., Dahl, A., Samuelson, A., Chen, K., Baxley, C., & Bareket-Shavit, C. (2019). Narrowing the judgment-action gap: The case of student cheating. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

 Waltzer, T., Baxley, C., Bareket-Shavit, C., & Dahl, A. (2018). Reasoning and decision-making behind plagiarism. Talk presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

 Bareket-Shavit, C., Baxley, C., Chen, K., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2018). Do teachers teach students what they need to learn about academic misconduct? Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

 Dahl, A., Chen, K., Samuelson, A., Serrano, M., Constanza, L., Peña, A., Baxley, C., & Waltzer, T. (2018). Student reasoning about real cases of cheating: A comparison of first-person and third-person perspectives. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

Selected Publications

 Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (invited). The moral puzzle of academic cheating: Perceptions, evaluations, and decisions. In D. A. Rettinger & T. Bertram Gallant (Eds.), Cheating academic integrity: Lessons from 30 years of research. Wiley/Jossey Bass.

 Waltzer, T., Samuelson, A., & Dahl, A. (in press). Students’ reasoning about whether to report when others cheat: Conflict, confusion, and consequences. Journal of Academic Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-021-09414-4

 Waltzer, T., Baxley, C., & Dahl, A. (in press). Adults’ responses to young children’s transgressions: A new method for understanding everyday social interactions. Early Child Development and Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2019.1709182

 Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2021). Students’ perceptions and evaluations of plagiarism: Effects of text and context. Journal of Moral Education, 50(4), 436-451. http://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2020.1787961

 Dahl, A., & Waltzer, T. (2020). Rationalization is rare, reasoning is pervasive: Commentary on ‘Rationalization is rational’ by Fiery Cushman. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E33. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002140

 Dahl, A., & Waltzer, T. (2020). Constraints on conventions: Resolving two puzzles of conventionality. Cognition, 196, 104152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104152

 Kloos, H., Baker, H., & Waltzer, T. (2019). A mind with a mind of its own: How complexity theory can inform early science pedagogy. Educational Psychology Review, 31, 735-752.

Dahl, A., Waltzer, T., & Gross, R. (2018). Helping, hitting, and developing: Toward a constructivist-interactionist account of early morality. In C. C. Helwig (Ed.), Current issues in moral development (pp. 33-53). Taylor & Francis.