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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"deception"”.
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Paradigmatic Self-Deception
… a theory of what I call "paradigmatic self-deception," the most serious and vivid cases of self-deception. While there has been much philosophical discussion of self-deception in recent decades, existing work does not explain how and why some cases of self-deception are more severe than …
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Hezbollah: Chattel of Deception
Hezbollah truly is a manipulative deceitful beast that must be shown in its true form. While it will maintain that it is a legitimate political entity, one can ascertain from this study that its actions dictate otherwise. Whether it is through its manipulation of HAMAS and the PA, the Lebanese …
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Deception detection in dialogues
… now an urgent need for both theory that explains deception and applications that automatically detect deception. In this thesis I address this need with a novel application that learns from examples and detects deception reliably in natural-language dialogues. I formally define the problem of …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
This thesis analyses the phenomenon of self-deception and explores the assessment of its consequences in moral responsibility and criminal culpability. It consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception and proposes a new model of the mind of the self-deceiver based on …
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Linguistic Cues to Deception
… to add data to the body of knowledge for deception cues. Participants wrote truthful and deceptive essays arguing why items salvaged from the wreckage were useful for survival. Cues to deception considered here fit into four categories: those caused by a deceivers' negative emotion, verbal …
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Deception Analysis in Interpersonal Communication
… made possible through the strategic means of deception. An untrained individual (civilian) who desires personal gain at the expense of others, however, may use the same strategic gimmicks and manipulations that magicians employ. This study considered the theatrical elements used by magicians …
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Detecting deception in second-language speakers
It is currently unknown how lie detection accuracy is affected when someone is speaking in his or her second language. We examined whether language proficiency had an impact on lie detection. We hypothesized that when judging the veracity of second-language speakers, participants would be better …
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Understanding and Combating Online Social Deception
… for a particular type of online social deception (OSD) using various artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including machine/deep learning (ML/DL) or text mining. However, fewer studies exist on the prevention and response (or mitigation) mechanisms for effective defense against OSD …
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Deception in Modern Warfare and Strategic Affairs
This thesis examines the use of deception in warfare and strategic affairs in the past 30 years. The thesis uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative assessments to determine the effectiveness of using deception to achieve surprise in battle, how successful achieving surprise is as an …
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Police Deception: A Survey of EKU Students
<p>Abstract </p> <p>Police deception has been both good and bad for society. Deceptive interrogation is an effective method of gaining confessions and convictions. It is also dangerous in that it raises the potential for false confessions, damages police-citizen relationships, damages case …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
… features are associated with cooperation or deception. Our machine learning models achieve an average prediction accuracy from 58% to 79%. This suggests that acoustic features are effective in predicting cooperation and deception. We also find that the pitch (fundamental frequency) is …
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Performance Analysis of Cyber Deception Using Probabilistic Models
… for thwarting cyber attackers are required. Deception is the a mechanism that at- tempts to distort or misled an adversary. It is a proven tactic leveraged in traditional warfare with a long history of noted successes. While deception has seen great success in traditional warfare, it has seen …
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Detecting deception: The accuracy of the good judge
… of personality are also skilled at detecting deception, as individuals typically are inaccurate in their judgements of deception due to focusing on irrelevant cues (Vrij, Granhag, & Porter, 2010). A sample of college students (N = 262) viewed videos of 10 individuals answering basic getting to …
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Deception in Sport: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis
… offered a pivotal first step into understanding deception in competitive sport and its many intricacies. However, the analysis falls short of truly deciphering this widespread phenomenon. By creating a taxonomy based on Torres (2000) understanding of various types of skills in an athletic …
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
This study investigates the hypothesis that self-deception can help to facilitate moral blindness in the context of the modem corporation. It contends that individuals are capable of suppressing knowledge or beliefs regarding truths that they prefer not to face, and that this self-deceptive process …
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The impact of thin(ner) slicing on deception detection
… of behavior less than five minutes) affected deception detection. Participants (N = 262) were randomly assigned to one of seven exposure length conditions (i.e., 5-second, 10-second, 15-second, 20-second, 25-second, 30-second, or full-length clips). They attempted to detect the deception of 12 …
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The Self-Deception of Julia in Byron's Don Juan
… of Don Juan represents some form of self- deception. Julia and Inez are victims of deceit through perverted sexual love; Lambro and Suwarrow are examples of deception through a perverted love of country Adeline and Henry are symbols of the hypocrisy of a perverted society. Of all these …
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