Extant research suggests that people seem deceitful and difficult to understand when their verbal behavior is inconsistent with their nonverbal behavior. Building on this literature, we examined the impact of behavioral coherence on impression formation: We expected people to be likeable to the extent that their verbal and nonverbal behavior was consistent (i.e., coherent). In two studies, part...

Agents in Multi-Agent Systems depend on assistance from others to attain their goals. Often, goals of agents conflict with each other, and agents can be unreliable or deceitful. Therefore, rational agents embedded in an open Multi-Agent System need to be equipped with algorithms to reason about trust. Currently, existing algorithms mainly focus on performance of these algorithms in terms of uti...

Humans learn, in large part, by copying knowledgeable others. However, because others can be deceitful or lack competence, indiscriminate copying would be maladaptive. How then do individuals determine which social group members have knowledge that should be copied? We argue that the pride nonverbal expression may signal expertise, and thus bias learning such that proud others are more likely t...

The current trend in knowledge revision in the Dynamic Epistemic Logic tradition focuses on the addition of new knowledge, rather than the possibility of losing knowledge. Yet there are natural situations where there is a need to be able to model the retraction of a proposition from a knowledge base. One situation where this is systematically required is the variant of the medieval theory of ob...

This study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic EFL learners’ composition writing. Fifty female students studying English at Navid English Institute in Shiraz, Iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. They were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of English who were divided into two control and experimental groups a...

Though we typically think that power is desirable, individuals will sometimes avoid power. One explanation for this behavior some are averse to the responsibility associated with and therefore positions of However, people may also because they perceive it as being inherently negative. This supported by research on lay theories power, which suggests those who endorse coercive theory powerful man...

Nalavenba deals with Nalan-Damayanti's love life and the evil caused by gambling. Although it is a romantic epic, seen as work filled many virtues. Even though story of gambling bad king, there are The people Mavinda city well educated, they do not beg, deceitful. Nalan one who distributes saves country good rules, strength better mind. an expert in offering to people. Veeman's capital was guar...

A customer’s decision to purchase a product or service are primarily influenced by online reviews. Customers use reviews, which valuable sources of information understand the public opinion on products and/or services. Dependability reviews can give rise potential concern that violator could deceitful in order synthetically promote decry and This practice is known as Opinion Spam, where spammer...