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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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Informational asymmetries abound in economic decision making and often provide an incentive for deception through … the truth should be classified as deception too if the sender chooses the true message with the expectation that the … receiver will not follow the sender's (true) message. The experimental data reveal a large degree of 'sophisticated' deception …
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Deception is a strategy that has been widely used in cyber conflicts. How to detect deception in a timely manner is … technology are narrow in scope, so that they are not capable of dealing with the deception that they have not handled before. The … provided to test the effectiveness of this solution in detecting deception in a timely manner. The benefits and limitations of …
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In this article, we aim at relating emotions and gender stereotypes through the analysis of the narratives contained in spam e-mails. We will present four different types of spam e-mails from a corpus consisting of 450 emails, their length being between four and fifty-two lines of extension....
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deception in crowdsourcing based on commonalities among incidents. The framework includes prank activities, the intentional …. Finally, the authors discuss example controls that can assist in identifying and mitigating disruption and deception risks in …
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risk. Such self-deception can be achieved even if the future self is aware of the attempted distortion. We relate our …
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accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others …
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We study equilibrium reporting behavior in Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013) type cheating games when agents have a fixed cost of lying and image concerns not to be perceived as a liar. We show that equilibria naturally arise in which agents with low costs of lying randomize among a set of...
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Why are people so often overconfident? We conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis that people become overconfident to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed that they can earn money by convincing others...
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In this paper, we shed light on the different moral costs of dishonesty and stealing. To accomplish this, we set up a die-rolling task which allowed participants to increase their own payout through dishonesty or theft. The results show that participants have fewer reservations about dishonesty...
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