The Phenomenon Of Deception Paper

The phenomena of lying is explored by people in numerous fields. This includes researchers in fields such as: management, neuroscience, communication, and psychosocial sciences. People use deception for many different reasons. Thus, each researcher may be observing different aspects of these deceptive behaviors. It has been understood by current research that people may lie to achieve a status, such a person saying they did not cheat in a race (when they did) so they can win. Others lie for self-perception so they can feel better about themselves, and some tell other-oriented lies, which are lies to protect other’s feelings. According to a study done by Dreber and Johannesson (2008), women are more inclined to tell other-oriented lies.

If one chose to lie, would they do it themselves, or go through a mediator first? This way the mediator is the one to take the fall. The design of the experiment in all three article was to play a game where people are assigned a role such as sender (person who sends a message), receiver (person who gets the advice or message from the sender), and the agent (the person the sender can use to communicate to the receiver with and if the receiver is lied to, then the agent takes the punishment). The receiver can choose to not take the advice of the sender. Erat (2013) found that it was women who chose to use the agent. When the risk of harm to the receiver is greater, then most people will try to avoid the blame. Gneezy’s (2013) main point of his article was to introduce a new method for measuring people’s decision to lie. He attempted to take the works of Erat (2013) and Childs (2012), and improve it, so the study is a more useful way of measuring these factors. He did so by breaking people up into categories: those who never lie, always lie, and those who lie based off the incentive introduced to

One camera was facing the participant’s poker hand, and the other was facing towards their face. This assisted the research team in knowing when the participant was lying. The surveillance camera facing the cards allowed the researchers to know what the participant truly had in their hand, and the audio allowed them to know if the person lied about it. In another room there were three research staff members. The research team attempted to eliminate possible observation error by assigning each of the three research members to one participant. This allowed each person to be solely responsible for viewing only one set of surveillance cameras and recording the data for one participant. This is how the dependent variable, deception frequency, was