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Legal controls on lying public officials
Considering the harm that is caused by lying public officials, to what extent does the law address this harm, and how? To the extent that it does not, is a broader legal remedy possible, and what might it look like? This thesis first sets out the harm that is caused by officials who lie – …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
… human-machine interactions. Chapter 2 focuses on lying detection from voice analysis. We use video clips from the British TV game show “Golden Balls”, where the contestants play a prisoner’s dilemma game with pre-play communication and from “Real-life Trial” (RT) data, which consist of videos …
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Lying strategies in juveniles during Behavior Analysis Interviews
… deceit, but it is based on faulty indicators of lying and may be problematic for juveniles due to developmental immaturities. This study compared juveniles’, young adults’, and adults’ reported willingness to engage in truthful and deceitful responses during a hypothetical BAI. Regardless of …
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Impacts of managed realignment on low-lying coasts
This thesis is focused on the design of advanced suspension systems (active and semi-active) using time-domain optimal control methods. This work has been strongly motivated by the need to develop an approach to active and semi-active suspensions which was ready to be applied directly in a …
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Lying in children as a function of adult monitoring
… between subjects with a history of frequent lying and subjects with a generally honest history. These data are inconsistent with previously published correspondence training studies. Subjects may have responded to environmental cues that served as discriminative stimuli indicating that …
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Lying to parents and friends: A longitudinal investigation of the relation between lying, relationship quality, and depression in late-childhood and early adolescence
… 1 assessed longitudinal associations between lying to parents, keeping secrets from parents, parent-child relationship quality, and depression. There was bidirectional negative association between parent-child relationship quality and keeping secrets from parents over time, and depressive …
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Against Lying: Some Historical Arguments in Favor of Moral Absolutism
… to as the absolutist `tradition' against lying. This paper explores this so-called tradition by first examining Augustine's view. Augustine argued that lying is always wrong because it is an act that is always intrinsically duplicitous. The paper then explicates the positions of three …
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The Truth About Lying: Does a Lie Cause Ego Depletion?
… effortful cognitive tasks. I proposed that lying would create ego depletion due to the cognitive control associated with telling a lie. I further anticipated that the potential embarrassment associated with getting "caught" in a lie would cause additional ego depletion among participants. In …
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Lying: Strategies to Manage Undesirable Communicative Situations in Japan and New Zealand
… undesirable communicative situations by applying lying strategies, specifically, how they manage refusal situations by using untruthful excuses. Lying is a communicative strategy that people sometimes adopt to manage undesirable situations in everyday conversation. However, previous studies …
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The roles of linguistic meaning and context in the concept of lying
This dissertation adopts an experimental approach to studying lie judgments. It focuses on lie judgments to different types of meaning within a pragmatic framework – namely bare linguistic meaning, explicature, and implicature – to study whether the (in)directness of communicated false content …
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The behavioural need for lying and feeding in the high yielding dairy cow
… increased with milk yield, consequently reducing lying time. A second study measured the appetite of high and low yielding cows for concentrates, using operant conditioning. The high yielding cows demonstrated no greater appetite for concentrates, but post-testing behavioural observations …
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Deceptive self-presentation : an examination of lying for saving face in FTF and CMC contexts
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Communication, 2010
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Motive Selection and Lying Aversion in a Coin Flip Game: An Experimental Approach to Preference Switching
… an anonymous partner. Building on prior work on lying aversion and lying-dictator games, the test varies to elicit the discrepancy between lying aversion and equality. Allocations to each player’s material payoff, introduces of equal or unequal treatment and involved and indifferent treatments. …
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THE DEFINITION AND FUNCTION OF DECEPTIVE COMMUNICATION IN A LABOR-MANAGEMENT NEGOTIATION SESSION (LYING, BELIEFS, GENUINE).
This study attempts to bring together the fields of communication, business, philosophy and linguistics. This effort is to make known particular behaviors exhibited in a negotiation setting with a focus on understanding why these behaviors are permitted and even embraced. The communicative …
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Probing the Ultrafast Dynamics of Higher-Lying Excited States of Molecular Switches with Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy
… understood. In this dissertation, the higher-lying excited states of photochemical systems are measured by resonance transient Raman spectroscopy and provide information on the dynamics of the system following two-photon sequential excitation through mode-specific enhancements. Sequential …
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The Role of Horizontal Stress in the Formation of Valley Stress Relief Features in Flat-Lying Sedimentary Rocks
The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate, largely by numerical modeling, the general mechanisms by which the features mentioned above are formed. First, evidence supporting the existence of a regional horizontal stress, well in excess of gravitational considerations, will is presented. This …
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Theoretical Studies Of The Ground And Low-Lying Excited States Of [3,3']bidiazirinylidene(c2n4), Tetramethyleneethane Diradical, And Arsenic And Selenium Oxides
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