Lying in business: insights from Hannah Arendt's ‘Lying in Politics’

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...

Lying in everyday life.

In 2 diary studies of lying, 77 college students reported telling 2 lies a day, and 70 community members told 1. Participants told more self-centered lies than other-oriented lies, except in dyads involving only women, in which other-oriented lies were as common as self-centered ones. Participants told relatively more self-centered lies to men and relatively more other-oriented lies to women. C...

Pathological Lying

Lying Property in Balance Theory

Structural balance theory attempts to model signed networks consisting of positive (friendly) and negative (antagonistic) relations. We consider network creation games for modeling the evolution of signed networks. Recently, Malekzadeh et. al. (KDD 2011) have proposed a network creation game based on structural balance theory of signed networks. In this paper, we introduce a generalized model b...

Lying and Deception in Games

This article proposes definitions of lying and deception in strategic settings. A critical distinction is that deception requires a model of how the audience responds to messages while lying does not. Lies need not be deceptive. Deception does not require lying. The paper identifies situations in which lying is consistent with equilibrium and when the ability to lie is welfare enhancing. Decept...