Are lies more wrong than errors? Accuracy judgments of inaccurate statements

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-20

  Teigen, Karl Halvor ^a   Filkuková, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accuracy judgments; Framing; Lies; Overstatements; Predictions; Understatements

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78651492549     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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