Justifications Offered, Questions Asked, and Linguistic Patterns in Deceptive and Truthful Monetary Interactions

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 641-661

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual differences; Deception; Deception justification; Guilt; Interrogation; LIWC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945232228     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-015-9455-5     Document Type: Article

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