The current study looks at the effect of telling lies, in contrast to simply planning lies, on participants' belief in the truth. Participants planned and told a lie, planned to tell a lie but didn't tell it, told an unplanned lie, or neither planned nor told a lie (control) about events that did not actually happen to them. Participants attempted to convince researchers that all of the stories...

In knowledge management, the act of telling stories is utilized to capture and convey knowledge. Spoken language is the basis for telling stories. Collaborative audiobased storytelling uses the act of verbally telling stories in groups. In this paper, we explore how to utilize verbally told stories for informal knowledge management. To identify the requirements for an information system that su...

The present study examined the neural correlates of evaluations of both lying and truth-telling in different social contexts using fMRI methodology. The results demonstrated the differentiation between lying and truth-telling and between different types of lying in a network of brain regions. These regions included bilateral superior frontal gyrus (SFG), bilateral inferior parietal lobule (IPL)...

We are investigating techniques for supporting autonomous dialogue in interactive story telling. That is, instead of writing a script for every possible sequence of events, we would like to develop an approach in which story characters have more autonomy in deciding what to say when. We describe our current research on applying dialogue games theory to interactive story telling. We illustrate t...

Reinforcing character education in the early childhood or preschooler was deemed important nowadays; however, order to do so it requires creative yet unique method pique young pupils’ interest. Therefore, this research intends elaborate idea of reinforcing by implementing Bilingual Story-Telling Picture Book towards pupils at one preschoolers located Malang, East Java. This composed specificall...

We shall start by telling tile story of the discovery of the Dirac equation. There is no better way of telling it than in the words of the protagonists themselves and this is the way we shall do it. In this, we are greatly helpe.d by the excellent book "Inward Bound" by Abraham Pals (Pals 1986). Almost all our quotations are taken from this source. Every serious student of physics must read thi...

This paper describes a story-telling agent which is itself a multi-agent system composed of a blackboard structure and a number of smaller agents which both cooperate and compete against each other to preemt information according to each one’s point of view. The agent architecture is b~ed on a cognitive model, Minsky’s Society of Mind. The story-telling agent is an example application of this a...

TRUTH-TELLER, a program for testing a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) knowledge representation in practical ethics, compares cases presenting ethical dilemmas about whether to tell the truth. Its comparisons list ethically relevant similarities and differences (i.e., reasons for telling or not telling the truth which apply to both cases, and reasons which apply more strongly in one case than another...

Herein we explore whether the social psychology theory of commitment via a truth-telling oath can reduce coordination failure. Using a classic sequential coordination game, we ask all players to sign voluntarily a truth-telling oath before playing the game with cheap-talk communication. Three results emerge with commitment-via-the-oath: (1) coordination increased by nearly 50 percent; (2) sende...