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

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  • Monica T. Whitty
  • Tom Buchanan
  • Adam N. Joinson
  • Alex Meredith

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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.

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  • Monica T. Whitty & Tom Buchanan & Adam N. Joinson & Alex Meredith, 2012. "Not all lies are spontaneous: An examination of deception across different modes of communication," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63(1), pages 208-216, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:63:y:2012:i:1:p:208-216
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21648
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    1. Jussi Palomäki & Jeff Yan & David Modic & Michael Laakasuo, 2016. ""To Bluff like a Man or Fold like a Girl?" – Gender Biased Deceptive Behavior in Online Poker," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-13, July.
    2. Shuyuan Mary Ho & Jeffrey T. Hancock & Cheryl Booth, 2017. "Ethical dilemma: Deception dynamics in computer‐mediated group communication," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 68(12), pages 2729-2742, December.

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