“Deception: Moral transgression or social necessity?”: Cultural-relativity of deception motivations and perceptions of deceptive communication

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-50

  Kim, Min Sun ^a   Kam, Karadeen Y ^a   Sharkey, William F ^a   Singelis, Theodore M ^a  

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Author keywords

Culture; Deception; Deception Strategies; Self Construal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952471319     PISSN: 17513057     EISSN: 17513065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17513050701621228     Document Type: Article

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