Deception through Half-Truths

Get a Clue! Some Truths about Online Deception

As text-based computer-mediated technologies have become more and more commonplace in communication, our exposure to potential online deceptions like phishing, and even identity theft has also been increased. In order to avoid, or at least mitigate, these risks, we must be able to discern the underlying intent of the text message sender and to recognize whether these messages are deceptive, or ...

Of hospital advertising truths, half truths, and the academic medical center.

Research through deception.

On a spring evening two years ago, Steve Kaufinan, a wiry 18-year-old whose plain-featuced intensity reminds — one of Dustin Hoffinan, hurried across the Stanford University campus to what he thought would be an' interesting and enjoyable experience. He was headed for Jordan Hall, where the department of psychology is housed and where he had been receiving training as a hypnotic subject, prepar...

RESEARCH THROUGH DECEPTION - New York Times

On a spring evening two years ago, Steve Kaufman, a wiry 18-yearold whose plain-featured intensity reminds one of Dustin Hoffman, hurried across the Stanford University campus to what he thought would be an interesting and enjoyable experience. He was headed for Jordan Hall, where the department of psychology is housed and where he had been receiving training as a hypnotic subject, preparatory ...

Deception through telling the truth ? ! : Experimental

Informational asymmetries abound in economic decision making and often provide an incentive for deception through telling a lie or misrepresenting information. In this paper I use a cheap-talk sender-receiver experiment to show that telling the truth should be classified as deception too if the sender chooses the true message with the expectation that the receiver will not follow the sender’s (...