To date, limited research has been conducted to identify differences in children’s truthful and deceptive statements concerning stressful events. The present study uses automated linguistic software to detect linguistic patterns and objectively differentiate between the true and false stressful reports of bullying and non-stressful reports of sports events 7- to 14-year-olds. Results revealed that children displayed different linguistic patterns when reporting true and false stories, and between stressful and non-stressful stories. A discriminant analysis reliably differentiated between true and false stressful and non-stressful stories, though the veracity of non-stressful stories was more accurately classified than stressful stories. Experiment 2 revealed that adults were below chance levels in accurately identifying children’s true and false reports of stressful events (bullying), with confidence ratings and experience with children failing to improve accuracy scores. Taken together, results reveal that children are able to fabricate emotional and stressful stories that closely replicate their true reports.

To date, limited research has been conducted to identify differences in children’s truthful and deceptive statements concerning stressful events. The present study uses automated linguistic software to detect linguistic patterns and objectively differentiate between the true and false stressful reports of bullying and non-stressful reports of sports events 7- to 14-year-olds. Results revealed that children displayed different linguistic patterns when reporting true and false stories, and between stressful and non-stressful stories. A discriminant analysis reliably differentiated between true and false stressful and non-stressful stories, though the veracity of non-stressful stories was more accurately classified than stressful stories. Experiment 2 revealed that adults were below chance levels in accurately identifying children’s true and false reports of stressful events (bullying), with confidence ratings and experience with children failing to improve accuracy scores. Taken together, results reveal that children are able to fabricate emotional and stressful stories that closely replicate their true reports.

Most people seem to have the intuition that self-deception is always and obviously wrong. In this thesis, I make the case that under certain circumstances, self-deception can actually do a great deal of good and ought to be morally permissible – especially in cases where it would be life-threatening, dehumanizing, or cruel to insist on complete authenticity. I argue that self-deception can be rational and that it can also sometimes be morally permissible to allow the self-deception of others to go unchallenged, especially in cases where the opportunity to exercise compassion, empathy, and kindness towards each other takes precedence over a concern for truth. I then confront self-deception’s staunchest opponents, the Existentialists, who maintain that self-deception is never morally permissible because it conflicts with their supreme value, authenticity. I focus specifically on the work of Nietzsche and Sartre and identify the various problems that arise from their objections to self-deception. I conclude this thesis with some suggestions as to why so many people might have come to believe that authenticity is the supreme value, when a closer investigation suggests that it probably is not.

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This thesis is a cross-jurisdictional, multidisciplinary study of the use of potentially deceptive conduct in negotiation by lawyers and the regulation of such deceptive conduct through the legal ethics codes.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Psychology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Systems and Operations)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Denning, Dorothy. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 13, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Trust, influence, influence operations, piracy, Somalia, Somali Piracy, disruption, deception. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). Also available in print.

Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains iv, 122 pages. Bibliography: p. 119-122.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Mass., 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-122).