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Not all lies are spontaneous : an examination of deception across different modes of communication

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Whitty, Monica T., Buchanan, Tom, Joinson, Adam N. and Meredith, Alex (2011) Not all lies are spontaneous : an examination of deception across different modes of communication. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (1). pp. 208-216. doi:10.1002/asi.21648

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Abstract

An online diary study was performed to investigate deception across different media. One hundred and four individuals participated in the study, with 76 completing the diaries. Individuals were most likely to lie on the telephone. Planned lies, which participants also rated the most serious, were more likely told via SMS (short message service) text messaging. Most lies were told to people participants felt closest to. The feature-based model provides a better account of the deceptions reported by participants than do media richness theory or social distance theory. However, the authors propose a reworked feature-based model to explain deception across different media. They suggest that instant messaging should be treated as a near synchronous mode of communication. We suggest that the model needs to distinguish between spontaneous and planned lies.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Truthfulness and falsehood, Telecommunication, Social interaction
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 1532-2882
Official Date: 29 September 2011
Dates:
DateEvent
29 September 2011Published
2 August 2011Accepted
Volume: 63
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 208-216
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21648
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: British Academy (BA)

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