Computer-Mediated Deception: Strategies Revealed by Language-Action Cues in Spontaneous Communication

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 393-420

  Ho, Shuyuan Mary ^a   Hancock, Jeffrey T ^b   Booth, Cheryl ^a   Liu, Xiuwen ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LINGUISTICS;

CLASSIFICATION METHODOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; INFORMATION BEHAVIOR; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; PERSONAL INFORMATION; SPONTANEOUS COMMUNICATION;

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EID: 84990997755     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2016.1205924     Document Type: Article

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