Many intelligent, capable, and successful individuals believe that their success is due to luck, fear they will someday be exposed as imposters. A puzzling feature of this phenomenon, comm...

Abstract According to the pragmatic hypothesis testing theory, how much evidence we require before believe something varies depending on expected costs of falsely believing and disbelieving it. This theory has been used in self-deception debate explain our tendencies towards self-deceptive belief formation. article argues that application this overlooked distinction between acceptance, all like...

The paper explores conceptually the relationship between trust and deception. The author advances five main propositions, which concern deceptive signals of trustworthiness, the suspension of uncertainty in trust, the moral implications of trusting and deceiving, the trustor’s self-deception, and the reversibility of trust. The overall conclusion is that trust and deception both enable and prev...

Bullshit”, as Harry Frankfurt writes in his recent book “On Bullshit”, is a communication that pretends to be genuinely informative but really is not. The person who talks bullshit, Frankfurt holds, is unconcerned with whether what he says is true, but is very concerned with how he is thought of by the listener. In this paper, I discuss Frankfurt’s theory of bullshit, making specific reference ...

My considerations are typological in nature. A lie is a disingenuous assertion made to another person with the intent of deceiving other into believing both that true and liar believes it be true. This definition morally neutral. It requires further, moral judgment determine whether good or bad thing, whether, specified circumstances, right wrong. However, what if truth not only occasionally co...

This study examined whether priming with social deception affects responses (pain estimates, self-reported sympathy, inclination to help) towards others' pain. We further explored whether the priming effect is mediated by the valence of the patients (positive/negative), as indicated by the participants. First, participants (N=55) took part in an 'independent' delayed memory study in which they ...

We model agents who use self-deception to rationalize and justify actions that can eventually lead them into temptation. Formally, we extend Gul and Pesendorfer’s (2001) framework to three time periods and obtain a special functional form for the temptation utility at the interim stage. Our representation portrays an agent who is tempted (i) to relax her normative attitude towards future indulg...

This paper presents a study conducted for the Shades of Grey EPSRC research project (EP/H02302X/1), which aims to develop a suite of interventions for identifying terrorist activities. The study investigated the body movements demonstrated by participants while waiting to be interviewed, in one of two conditions: preparing to lie or preparing to tell the truth. The effect of self-awareness was ...