Abstract Unlike the question of whether self‐deception can be understood on model other‐deception, relationship between two phenomena at level practice is hardly ever explored. Other‐deception support and vice versa. Self‐deception often affects not only beliefs behavior self‐deceiving person but also others who may become accomplices self‐deception. As I will show, however, it difficult to des...

In the philosophical literature, self-deception is mainly approached through the analysis of paradoxes. Yet, it is agreed that self-deception is motivated by protection from distress. In this paper, we argue, with the help of findings from cognitive neuroscience and psychology, that self-deception is a type of affective coping. First, we criticize the main solutions to the paradoxes of self-dec...

Recent research has found that deceivers are extremely difficult to detect in computer-mediated work settings. However, it is unclear which individuals are likely to use computer systems for deception in these settings. This study looked at how 172 upper-level business students’ political skill, social skill, and tendency to use impression management was related to their deception media choice ...

While text-based deception in computer mediated communication has been studied, e.g., Zhou (2005) and Duran et al. (2010), there has been less focus on the differentiation of strategies for deception, especially those which may manifest in modern communication, such as found in social media. In this paper, we extend our previous work on the evaluation of linguistic indicators to strategic decep...

Nowadays in this competitive world of job seekers, the necessity of job makes many recruiters to provide more cautious on their selection process. The recruitment process is definitely a fuzzified anomaly for all the components available in the environment. The art of deception also changes its face with a modern artistic fashion. This paper deals with the uncertainty features which play the ma...

Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. We find that those who exploit opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of inte...

Trust and deception have been of concern to researchers since the earliest research into multi-agent trading systems (MATS). In an open trading environment, trust can be established by external mechanisms e.g. using secret keys or digital signatures or by internal mechanisms e.g. learning and reasoning from experience. However, in a MATS, where distrust exists among the agents, and deception mi...

Deception is a very common phenomenon, especially human communication, and people have been interested in how to accurately detect deception for much of human history. In recent years, detecting deception has became a huge point of interest for many different fields of research, such as business, jurisprudence, law enforcement, and national security. Deception and its detection is a complicated...

This paper explores three deception techniques which are widely used in political and product marketing. These techniques are ‘deception by omission’, ‘deception by saturation’ and the use of ‘deception by spin’. These techniques are newly analysed in the framework of the four canonical strategies of Information Warfare and Shannon’s capacity and entropy theorems, and their respective strength...

At a recent conference at which we were participants (the 1996 Amsterdam Workshop on Experimental Economics) one recurrent theme at a number of sessions was the issue of deception in economics experiments. Not withstanding some heated exchanges, it seemed clear that the predominant view among the participants was that deception in an experiment should be avoided. In the present paper Bonetti ch...