Lying to Individuals Versus Lying to Groups

Lying to the Future

I lied to the future last night. I told it that soon it would be big and strong and profitable. I then tucked it into its crib, turned off the lights, and hoped the day would never come when the future would curse this lie. I not only assured the future it would someday be strong and profitable, I also told it how it would strong and profitable. My lie was a little more prosaic than my words su...

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...

Low-Lying Fermion Modes: Dynamical versus Quenched

The eigenmodes of the Dirac operator carry information about the topological content of the background gauge field. The Atiyah-Singer index theorem tells us that in a sector with topological charge Qt the Dirac operator has at least |Qt| zero modes. In the presence of light dynamical fermions, the light quark determinant should suppress topological sectors with large |Qt|. As a consequence we e...

Lying to win-placebos and sport science.

Lie to Me: Lying Virtual Agents

The objective of this thesis was to endow agents with the ability to model the mind of other agents and to use this information on their reasoning process. We developed an architecture which enables N levels of Theory of Mind. Additionally we wanted to assess if a reasoning ability capable of more then one level would be perceived as more socially intelligent than one with only one level. For t...