Communicating Deception: Differences in Language Use, Justifications, and Questions for Lies, Omissions, and Truths

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1343-1367

  Van Swol, Lyn M ^a   Braun, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deception; Equivocation; Lie detection; Linguistic analysis; Lying; Omission; Suspicion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911950412     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-013-9373-3     Document Type: Article

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