Self-appraisals of performance are traditionally lenient and inaccurate, hampering their practical utility in applied settings. The purpose of the current study is to examine the underlying processes, namely self-deception and impression management, which contribute to this leniency and inaccuracy. Because self-ratings are inflated regardless of environmental affordances, self-deception is said to occur. However, when environmental contingencies that reward positive self-evaluations exist, leniency and inaccuracy increases. This suggests that impression management processes also contribute to inflated and inaccurate self-appraisals. The environmental affordances associated with self-ratings are often couched in terms of reward and nonreward purposes of appraisal (POA). The occurrence of leniency and inaccuracy in reward purposes of appraisal are potentially moderated by personality variables such as self-monitoring (SM). Consequently, POA and SM were examined in the current study. Participants completed a model building task in both non-reward and reward POAs, with self-appraisals following each task. They also completed surveys which assessed their levels of self-monitoring, self-deception, and impression management. It was predicted that self-rated performance would be lenient across conditions, reflecting self-deception. It was further predicted that participants would be more lenient and less accurate in the reward POA than in the non-reward POA, reflecting impression management processes. This would suggest an additive effect in which impression management leads to increased inflation beyond the level of inflation attributed to self-deception. Finally, it was predicted that self-rating leniency in the reward POA would be moderated by self-monitoring, such that only high self-monitors would be significantly more lenient in the reward POA in terms of their self-rated performance. Repeated measure ANOVAS using four accuracy and four leniency measures yielded limited support for the hypotheses. Implications for future research are discussed. / Master of Science

This study examined the ability of students to correctly discern between truthful and deceptive messages from a group of second language English speakers. Recent studies have found a ‘lie bias’ when making veracity judgments towards second language speakers. This lie bias may be problematic in a country such as South Africa where the majority of the population communicate, to a greater or lesser extent, in their second language. In this study participants (n=64) made classifications of 24 messages as either truthful or deceptive. The messages were created by second language English speakers who were asked to describe a truthful or deceptive event. The results revealed that there was a significant difference between the way that first and second language participants made their judgments. It is argued that this difference can be attributed to the notion that second language participants require more cognitive effort, than their first language counterparts, to understand and classify messages. / Psychology / M. A.(Psychology)

Malingering is the deliberate production of feigned symptoms by a person seeking external gain such as: financial compensation, exemption from duty, or leniency from the criminal justice system. The Test Translation and Adaptation Guidelines developed by the International Test Commission (ITC) specify that only tests which have been formally translated into another language and validated should be available for use in clinical practice. Thus, the current study evaluated the psychometric properties of a Spanish translation of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS). Using a simulation design with 80 Spanish-speaking Hispanic American outpatients, the Spanish SIRS was produced reliable results with small standard errors of measurement (SEM). Regarding discriminant validity, very large effect sizes (mean Cohen's d = 2.00) were observed between feigners and honest responders for the SIRS primary scales. Research limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.

Purpose: The effects of deceptive advertising practices on customer loyalty towards mobileservice providers have been investigated empirically by this study. The main contribution ofthis study is to investigate the perceived deception-customer loyalty relationship under themoderating effect of corporate image and mediating effect of customer trust. The study is done in the context of Pakistan’s telecommunication sector.Existing literature is insufficient to explain perceived deception and customer loyalty relationship. We proposed a model to test and explain the interrelationship of deception,trust, loyalty and corporate image. Research Methodology: we have adopted quantitative research method, according to needof our study. A total sample of 232 respondents has been achieved with the help of selfadministeredquestionnaire. Measurement scale for perceived deception were taken fromChaouachi & Rached (2012) and for corporate image, customer trust and customer loyaltyhave been found from Aydin & Özer (2005). Analysis & Findings: Descriptive and inferential statistical tools were used for analysis.Correlation analysis, simple and multiple regression analysis were conducted under theinferential statistical part. The findings have rejected the proposed hypothesis that perceiveddeception is negatively associated with customer trust and loyalty. We found customer trustas a mediator between perceived deception and customer loyalty while corporate imagemoderates the relationship between perceived deception and customer trust. Research Limitations: the study could not achieve highly representative sample of overallpopulation as Facebook was selected to conduct survey due to time constraint. Implications and future research: The study shows that deception in advertising perceivedby customer does not affect trust and loyalty in a negative way which suggests that there areadditional factor that can explain the relationship further. A comparative study withqualitative focus could be revealing in this context.

Deux facteurs permettent d’augmenter la performance de détection du mensonge : (a)identifier les croyances erronées et lutter contre elles et (b) accroître les différences decomportements entre les menteurs et les personnes qui disent la vérité. Ce travail de thèse aétudié ces facteurs en lien avec les expressions faciales du mensonge. Pour ce faire, nous avonsinvestigué les croyances via l’utilisation d’un questionnaire photographique et utilisé un récitantéchronologique (narration à rebours) pour amplifier les différences de comportements(approche de la charge cognitive).Notre démarche expérimentale a questionné : (a) Les croyances les plus prégnantesrelatives aux expressions faciales du mensonge. (b) L’influence de l’expérience professionnelle,de l’enjeu du mensonge (grave ou anodin) et du comportement mensonger évalué (le sien oucelui d’autrui). (c) La pertinence de l’intensité des expressions faciales pour déceler lesmensonges lors d’un récit antéchronologique.L’ensemble de nos résultats ont mis au jour de nombreuses nouvelles croyances. Septd’entre elles étaient très partagées par les individus et cohérentes avec la vision stéréotypée dumenteur. L’expérience professionnelle, l’enjeu du mensonge et le comportement mensongerévalué ont peu modifié les croyances. Le récit antéchronologique a amplifié les différences entrementeurs et sincères ; et l’intensité des mouvements faciaux a été une mesure pertinente pourdéceler le mensonge. L’application de nos travaux est discutée. / Two factors increase the lie detection performance: (a) identify and decrease false beliefsand (b) increase behavioral differences between liars and truth-tellers. These factors were studiedin relation to facial expressions of deception in this doctoral dissertation.The present work questioned (a) The most important beliefs about facial expressions ofdeception throught the use of a photographic questionnaire (b) The influence of professionalexperience, stakes of lie (serious or trivial) and the lying behavior evaluated (his own or that ofothers) (c) The relevance of facial expressions’ intensity to detect lies in an reverse orderinstruction which was used to magnify behavioral differences (cognitive load approach).Our results highlighted many new beliefs. Seven of them were very shared by people andconsistent with the stereotypical view of the liar. Beliefs were little infuenced by professionalexperience, the stakes of lie and the evaluated behavior. The reverse order instruction amplifieddifferences between liars and truth-tellers; and the intensity of facial movements was a relevantmeasure for detecting deception. Application of our research is discussed.

Esta Dissertação, intitulada Narrativa da Espera no Romance Angolano Contemporâneo: Notas às alegóricas Noites de Vigília de Boaventura Cardoso, propõe a leitura de Noites de vigília (2012), do angolano Boaventura Cardoso. Essa obra, voltada para a revisitação do passado histórico-político angolano, sob o signo da alegoria lançada no universo teorizador por Walter Benjamin, irrompe com a história oficial ao pôr em questionamento o projeto da Terra Prometida, cujo marcador é a espera ancorada no desejo de fundação de uma associação das personagens- protagonistas, a saber: Quinito, do MPLA, e Saiundo, da UNITA. Por conseguinte, através do comparativismo literário, procuramos analisar como a recriação do sociopolítico angolano, em Noites de Vigília, indicia a desrepressão da história, visando a consumação do projeto de comunidade imaginada angolana, hasteando-se, desse modo, a bandeira da igualdade social, dando-se voz e vez aos da pereiferia social. Assim, procura-se demonstrar como a ficcionalização do histórico-político angolano denuncia um socius na contramão do apregoado ao longo do movimento anti-colonial, haja vista a proclamação da sociedade pautada na igualdade, liberdades e bemestar coletivo ainda em processo. / This Dissertation, entitled Narrative of Waiting in the Contemporary Angolan Romance: Notes to the allegorical Vigil Nights of Boaventura Cardoso, proposes the reading of Vigil Nights (2012), by Angolan Boaventura Cardoso. This work, aimed at revisiting the Angolan historical-political past, under the sign of the allegory launched in the theorizing universe by Walter Benjamin, bursts into official history by questioning the Promised Land project whose marker is the \"waiting\" anchored in the desire to found an association of the main characters, namely: Quinito, MPLA, and Saiundo, UNITA. Therefore, through literary comparativeism, we seek to analyze how the re-creation of the Angolan sociopolitical, in Nights of Vigil, indicates the derepression of history, aiming at the consummation of the Angolan imagined community project, thereby hovering the banner of social equality , giving voice and time to those of the social pereiferia. Thus, we try to demonstrate how the fictionalization of the Angolan historical-political denounces a socius against the one proclaimed throughout the anti-colonial movement, given the proclamation of a society based on equality, liberties and collective well-being still in process.

O engano, enquanto reflexo da realidade, está representado em diversos gêneros literários e na literatura de várias épocas. Este trabalho analisa, primariamente, os antecedentes míticos, o léxico e a estrutura dramática dos enganos mencionados ou encenados em todas as tragédias conhecidas de Eurípides, completas ou fragmentárias. Precede a análise um breve estudo da teoria comportamental do engano e de sua presença na literatura antiga, notadamente a da Grécia (dos poemas homéricos até o fim do século -V), e um excurso sobre o engano na poesia pré-euripidiana e sua influência na tragédia grega. A última parte do estudo compreende uma sistematização da estrutura do engano euripidiano e de seu léxico. / Deception, as a reflex of our reality, can be found in many literary genres and literary compositions of all times. This work deals primarily with the mythical antecedents and with lexical and dramatical structure of deceits briefly described or staged in all known Euripides complete or fragmentary tragedies. A study on behavioral deception theory and its presence in ancient literature, specially in Greece from homeric poems until the fifth century B.C., with an excursus on deception in pre-euripidean poetry and its influence in Greek tragedy precedes the analysis. A systemization of lexical and structural characteristics of euripidean deception completes the study.

Esta Dissertação, intitulada Narrativa da Espera no Romance Angolano Contemporâneo: Notas às alegóricas Noites de Vigília de Boaventura Cardoso, propõe a leitura de Noites de vigília (2012), do angolano Boaventura Cardoso. Essa obra, voltada para a revisitação do passado histórico-político angolano, sob o signo da alegoria lançada no universo teorizador por Walter Benjamin, irrompe com a história oficial ao pôr em questionamento o projeto da Terra Prometida, cujo marcador é a espera ancorada no desejo de fundação de uma associação das personagens- protagonistas, a saber: Quinito, do MPLA, e Saiundo, da UNITA. Por conseguinte, através do comparativismo literário, procuramos analisar como a recriação do sociopolítico angolano, em Noites de Vigília, indicia a desrepressão da história, visando a consumação do projeto de comunidade imaginada angolana, hasteando-se, desse modo, a bandeira da igualdade social, dando-se voz e vez aos da pereiferia social. Assim, procura-se demonstrar como a ficcionalização do histórico-político angolano denuncia um socius na contramão do apregoado ao longo do movimento anti-colonial, haja vista a proclamação da sociedade pautada na igualdade, liberdades e bemestar coletivo ainda em processo. / This Dissertation, entitled Narrative of Waiting in the Contemporary Angolan Romance: Notes to the allegorical Vigil Nights of Boaventura Cardoso, proposes the reading of Vigil Nights (2012), by Angolan Boaventura Cardoso. This work, aimed at revisiting the Angolan historical-political past, under the sign of the allegory launched in the theorizing universe by Walter Benjamin, bursts into official history by questioning the Promised Land project whose marker is the \"waiting\" anchored in the desire to found an association of the main characters, namely: Quinito, MPLA, and Saiundo, UNITA. Therefore, through literary comparativeism, we seek to analyze how the re-creation of the Angolan sociopolitical, in Nights of Vigil, indicates the derepression of history, aiming at the consummation of the Angolan imagined community project, thereby hovering the banner of social equality , giving voice and time to those of the social pereiferia. Thus, we try to demonstrate how the fictionalization of the Angolan historical-political denounces a socius against the one proclaimed throughout the anti-colonial movement, given the proclamation of a society based on equality, liberties and collective well-being still in process.

O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar a questão da política do medo e das várias formas de manipulação da realidade encontradas nas narrativa de 1984 (1949), de George Orwell, assim como na narrativa gráfica de V de Vingança tanto na sua versão em quadrinhos, de Alan Moore (1982-88), quanto na sua adaptação cinematográfica, escrita pelos Wachowskis (2005). Em particular, tenta demonstrar similaridades nas técnicas usadas, assim como na análise dos personagens, procurando embasar certos questionamentos com a ajuda de filósofos políticos, estudos de psicologia, culturais, e distópicos. Ao final, este trabalho tenta identificar a importância da influência dos autores estudados, assim como outros autores distópicos, na criação e desenvolvimento de uma nova geração social de mentalidade inconformista / This dissertation aims to analize the question of the politics of fear and the many forms of manipulation of reality found in George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), as well as in Alan Moores graphic novel V for Vendetta (1982-88) and its film adaptation written by the Wachowskis (2005). In particular, it tries to show similarities among the used techniques, as well as in the character analysis, trying to support these findings with the help of political philosophers, as well as psychological, cultural and dystopian studies. In the end, this work tries to identify the importance of these authors, as well as other dystopian authors, and their influence on the creation and development of a new generation of nonconformists

One of the most salient characteristics of Cervantes's literary production is his fascination, one might even say his obsession, with the human capacity for transformation. Nearly all of his plays, novellas, and novels feature characters that adopt alternative identities and disguise or dissimulate their true, original selves. The Novelas ejemplares (1613) encompass a veritable cornucopia of characters that pass themselves off as another. There are women who pass as men, Christians as Turks, Catholics as Protestants, and noblemen as gypsies, among many others. Identity, or at least its appearance, is represented as fluid and malleable. By creatively controlling the signs that they project in public, the characters of the novellas demonstrate a remarkable ability to adapt to innumerable contingencies. Similarly, subjects of the Spanish empire, driven particularly by ethno-religious and socio-economic motives, utilized craft and guile to conceal their identity or simulate another. On a theoretical level, both in Spain and throughout Europe, intellectuals explored the human capacity for transformation, and there emerged a new sense of interiority. As Stephen Greenblatt observes, in the Renaissance, "there appears to be an increased self-consciousness about the fashioning of human identity as a manipulable, artful process" (2). In this study I examine the abundance of deceit and disguise in Cervantes's collection of twelve novellas within the work's sociohistorical context. Specifically, I analyze how the novellas are embedded in two particular threads of cultural discourse on human identity: Spanish social history and early modern European intellectual history. / text