Lying to yourself and lying to others: Social desirability and language features

Alastiar J Gill; Jeffrey T Hancock; Jon Oberlander; Elizabeth Austin

Lying to yourself and lying to others: Social desirability and language features

Alastiar J Gill, Jeffrey T Hancock, Jon Oberlander, Elizabeth Austin

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Abstract

We investigate influence on language use of an individual's propensity to deceive (as measured by EPQ-R Lie Scale), rather than deception by assignment to condition. Using previously collected e-mail data and author information, we
analysed High and Low sub-groups using corpus comparison methods which allowed identification of higher-level information. We discuss our findings in relation to the deception literature. Generally there are consistencies in strategies
(namely, shifting focus from self); however we note additional features.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse
Publisher	Society for Text and Discourse
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 2006

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