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Showing 1 to 20 of 163 for “"Deceptive"”.
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Deceptive robots
Plan recognition in cooperative or adversarial situations requires the ability to reason with beliefs. The problem is complicated in adversarial situations because an opponent may employ deception. In this case, an agent must also be able to reason about an opponent's beliefs (nested beliefs) as …
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Existentially self deceptive storytelling: a new genre
… is given the specific name existentially-self deceptive- story, with an acronym ESDeS. The thesis goes on to suggest that such a narrative-consciousness could produce written stories that follow the same pattern, in which case the stories are called existentially-self-deceptive-novels, with an …
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Collaborative UAV path planning with deceptive strategies
In this thesis, we propose a strategy for a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform reconnaissance of an intended route while operating within aural and visual detection range of threat forces. The advent of Small UAVSs (SUAVs) has fundamentally changed the interaction between the …
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The role of counterfactual thinking in deceptive communication
This thesis explores the proposal that there is a close link between counterfactual thinking and lying. Although both require the imagination of alternatives to reality, research has yet to establish a direct link. In the first seven studies the relationship between counterfactuals and lies is …
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A Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Deceptive Communication
… whether creative cognition contributes to deceptive communication. In a first behavioural study, performance on generating and detecting lies was measured in a socially interactive setting involving cued and uncued lies. Results of a multiple regression analysis showed that creativity …
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Deceptive Environments for Cybersecurity Defense on Low-power Devices
The ever-evolving nature of botnets have made constant malware collection an absolute necessity for security researchers in order to analyze and investigate the latest, nefarious means by which bots exploit their targets and operate in concert with each other and their bot master. In that effort of …
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COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter: the role of deceptive support
Social media platforms like Twitter are a major dissemination point for information and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. But not all of the information comes from reliable sources, which raises doubts about their validity. In social media posts, writers reference news articles to gain …
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Effects of deceptive behavior on biomechanical measures of standing posture
… screening interview. We hypothesized that deceptive participants, compared to truthful would demonstrate significant differences in ground reactions during the interview. Participants were required to pack a backpack with various items. One group of participants had items that were …
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Development of A Self-Report Instrument For Assessing Deceptive Behaviors
… instrument for the assessment of deceptive behaviors. The second goal of this project was to investigate the relationship between personality and lying. We employed a multi–method approach to instrument development. After developing nine categories of deceptions, we created …
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Detecting Deceptive Impression Management Behaviors in Interviews Using Natural Language Processing
<p>Deceptive impression management (IM) is often used by applicants in employment interviews to improve their chances of receiving a job offer. Self-report measures of deceptive IM are typically used to evaluate interview faking in a lab setting but are limited when used in practice due to social …
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Decentralisation and Poverty Alleviation in Zambia: Achievable Goal or Deceptive Promise?
Since the 1990s, decentralisation has acquired increasing popularity among governments and aid agencies. Today, it is hard to find a country that has not undergone the reform of its local government system. Since 2000, decentralisation has been heavily promoted by donors as an important tool to …
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Deception in Super Bowl Advertisements: An Analysis of Deceptive Story Lines
… thesis examines the ethical issue of portraying deceptive acts within the storylines of Super Bowl advertisements from 1988-2008. Results indicate that 196 of the 2,172 advertisements studied, contain deceptive storylines. Most often the advertisements depicted white males, ages 30-64, using …
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The logic behind lies: A rational approach to deceptive message production
… increasingly interested in the production of deceptive messages, no attempt has been made to provide a conceptual basis for addressing deceptive message design. The goal of the current project was to develop a theoretical basis for addressing deceptive message design. Drawing upon O'Keefe's …
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Food theft by deceptive alarm calls in the fork-tailed drongo
… make false alarms; are false alarms truly deceptive; and if, just as in Aesop's fable 'The boy who cried wolf' , animals can learn to ignore false alarms, why doesn't deception break down? I investigated these questions in a population of habituated and individually recognisable fork-tailed …
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Joint Task Force Olympics : monitoring potential terrorists behavior via deceptive computer means
The purpose of this thesis is to deploy tactical deception via a public website. The perception is to have the website be a supportive tool for the Joint Task Force Olympics. In actuality, it will be used to collect various data from those who attempt to access the site. The goal is not to …
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Discrimination between sincere and deceptive isometric grip response using Segmental Curve Analysis
… (sincere) or a series of four submaximal (deceptive) contractions. The subjects were retested 24-48 hours after the initial test session. Data from both test sessions were recorded, displayed, and analyzed using segmental curve analysis. The coefficients of variation were computed for each …
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Confessions of Journalism's Old Gray Lady: Deceptive Reporting at the New York Times
In May of 2003 one of the most respected periodicals on the planet, The New York Times, ran a front page 14,000 word apology in the Sunday Times, for fallacious reporting conducted by Jayson Blair. In his four year tenure at the Times, Blair falsified sources, lied about conducting interviews, and …
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Discrimination between sincere and deceptive isokinetic knee extension response using segmental curve analysis
… equations to discriminate between sincere and deceptive isokinetic knee extension tests, whether these equations could be applied to a new sample, and whether prediction accuracy is dependent on test speed. Fisher [1989] trained 76 college-age males subjects to either give a true maximal …
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Synthetic and ecological chemistry of natural products and analogues from sexually deceptive Chiloglottis orchids
… on the evolution and speciation of sexually deceptive Chiloglottis orchids. Pollination by deception is a well documented phenomenon, particularly in the Orchidaceae, however only in recent decades has the chemical mimicry that so often drives these pollination syndromes become the subject of …
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