Attachment, Authenticity, and Honesty: Dispositional and Experimentally Induced Security Can Reduce Self- and Other-Deception

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 841-855

  Gillath, Omri ^a   Sesko, Amanda K ^a   Shaver, Phillip R ^b   Chun, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment security; authenticity; cheating; honesty; lying

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OBJECT RELATION; RECUMBENCY; TRUST;

AFFECT; DECEPTION; HUMANS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; TRUST; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 77953159973     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019206     Document Type: Article

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