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In 1793, researchers discovered that some plants offer no reward to their pollinators, relying instead on deception for pollination. Deceptive plants possess traits that signal rewards they do not offer, such as food, mating opportunities, refuge, and oviposition sites. An exception ...
- Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations
- Animals and Nature
- Communication
- “Boy Who Cried Wolf”
- Aroused Suspicion
- Bluffing
- Bragging and Grandiosity
- Burgoon, Judee
- Coherence and Correspondence
- Communication
- Content in Context
- Deception Detection Accuracy
- Discovered Deception, Reactions to
- Equivocation
- Exaggeration
- Frank, Mark
- Frankfurt, Harry G.
- Generalized Communicative Suspicion
- Goffman, Erving
- Half-Truths
- Honesty
- Infidelity
- Information Manipulation Theory 1
- Information Manipulation Theory 2
- Interpersonal Deception Theory
- Knapp, Mark
- Language
- Lie Acceptability
- Lie Bias
- Lies, Types of
- Lying, Prevalence of
- McCornack, Steven
- McCornack-Parks Model
- Miller, Gerald
- Paltering
- Park, Hee Sun
- Park-Levine Probability Model
- Plausibility
- Probing Effect
- Relationships: Family
- Relationships: Friends
- Relationships: Romantic
- Relationships: Sexual
- Reputation
- Sender Demeanor
- Sock Puppetry
- Source Credibility
- Tall Tales
- Transparent Liars
- Truth
- Truth Bias
- Veracity Effect
- White Lies
- Deception in Different Cultures
- Entertainment, Media, and Sports
- Invention of Lying, The
- Lie to Me
- To Tell the Truth
- War of the Worlds
- Audience
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beatles Hoax
- Blair, Jayson
- Brer Rabbit
- Children's Sports Teams
- College Sports
- Computer-Generated Images
- Fairy Tales
- Fantasy and Imagination
- Fiction
- Football
- Frey, James
- Games, Children's
- Glass, Stephen
- Gossip
- High School Sports
- Hockey
- Humor
- Iago (Shakespeare's Othello)
- Internet: Chat Rooms
- Internet: E-Mail
- Internet: Facebook and Social Media Sites
- Internet: Online Dating
- Magic Tricks
- Memoirs
- Movies, Lying in
- News Media: Internet
- News Media: Print
- News Media: Television and Radio
- Photographs, Altered
- Pinocchio
- Poker
- Rose, Pete
- Rumor
- Sawyer, Tom
- Soccer (Football)
- Ethics, Morality, and Religion
- Law, Business, and Academia
- Academia
- Accounting
- Alibi
- Attorneys
- Bankruptcy
- Business
- Caveat Emptor
- Cold Fusion
- Collusion
- Context
- Corporate Fraud
- Corporations
- Credibility
- Dot-Com Bubble
- Financial Markets
- Forgery, Art
- Greenspan, Alan
- Identity Theft
- Insider Trading
- Investment Fraud
- Justice
- Law and Law Enforcement
- Letters of Recommendation
- Libel and Slander
- Manipulation
- Marketing, Deceptive
- Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry
- Perjury
- Plagiarism
- Résumés
- Stylometry
- Witness, False Testimony of
- Military
- Battle of Fishguard
- Battle of the Bulge
- Bush, George W.
- Camouflage
- Churchill, Winston
- Civil War, U.S.
- Clausewitz, Carl von
- Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment
- Department of Defense, U.S.
- Disinformation
- Feigned Retreat
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Iraq War
- Korean War
- Military Deception
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nazi Propaganda
- Normandy, Allied Invasion of
- Operation Bodyguard
- Operation Mincemeat
- Operation Neptune
- Operation Quicksilver
- Siege of Mafeking
- Smoke Screen
- Sun Tzu
- Terrorism
- Torture
- Vietnam War
- World War I
- World War II
- Politics and Government
- Authoritarian States
- Big Lie Technique
- Bush, George W.
- Central Intelligence Agency, U.S.
- Clinton, Bill
- Contagious Disease Outbreaks
- Disasters
- Edwards, John
- Espionage and Counterespionage
- Government Propaganda
- Government, Decline of Public Trust in
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Kennedy, John F.
- Nazi Propaganda
- Nixon, Richard
- Secrecy
- Spin, Political
- Stalin, Josef
- Watergate
- White House Press Secretaries
- Psychology: Clinical and Developmental
- Adolescence, Lying in
- Brain
- Childhood, Lying in
- Children, Development of Deception in
- Consciousness
- Consensual Reality
- Cooperation
- Crying
- Disbelief, Suspension of
- Drugs
- Emotions
- False Memories
- Freud, Sigmund
- Guilt
- Impression
- Intelligence
- Lying as Exercise of Power
- Lying as Norm in Social Interactions
- Lying, Accusations of
- Lying, Costs of
- Lying, Difficulty of
- Lying, Intentionality of
- Malingering
- Memory
- Mental Effort in Lying
- Narcissism
- Neurophysiology
- Pathological Lying
- Projection
- Psychoanalysis
- Rationality
- Repressed Memories
- Self-Deception
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Justification
- Theory of Mind
- Ward, Lester F.
- Psychology: Social, Legal, and Forensic
- Behavioral Analysis Interview
- Betrayal
- Bond, Charles
- Cheating
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Cognitive Heuristics
- Cognitive Load
- Concealed Information Test
- Courtship, Deception in
- Daily Life, Lying in
- Deception and Technology
- Deception and Trust
- Deception in Different Contexts
- Deception in Research Design
- Deception Motives
- Deception, Attitudes Toward
- Deception, Characteristics of
- Deception, Definitions of
- Deception, Research on
- Deniability
- Denial
- DePaulo, Bella
- Dishonesty
- Distrust
- Duchenne Smile
- Duping Delight
- Ekman, Paul
- Electroencephalography
- Evidence, Strategic Use of
- Eye Contact
- False Confessions
- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Guilt
- Gullibility
- Honest Baseline Behaviors
- Investigator Bias
- Leakage
- Linguistic Cues
- Lying as Ability or Skill
- Machiavellianism
- Meta-Analysis
- Microfacial Expressions
- Motivational Impairment Effect
- Nonverbal Cues
- Othello Effect
- Overconfidence
- Polygraph
- Reaction Time
- Reality Monitoring
- Scientific Content Analysis
- Situational Familiarity
- Sock Puppetry
- Statement Validity Assessment
- Thermal Imaging
- Vocal Stress Analysis
- Vrij, Aldert
- Wizards of Lie Detection
- Social History: Lies in History, Famous Liars, and Hoaxes
- Great Gatsby, The
- New York Sun's Moon Series
- War of the Worlds
- Anderson, Anna (Anastasia)
- Anthropology, Cultural
- April Fool's Day
- Aristotle
- Bailey, Frederick George
- Barnum, P. T.
- Cardiff Giant
- Charles II Plot
- Churchill, Winston
- Civil War, U.S.
- Clausewitz, Carl von
- Clever Hans
- Colonialism
- Columbus, Christopher
- Con Man
- Conspiracies
- Cottingley Fairies
- Cromwell, Oliver
- Darwin, Charles
- Disasters
- Dreyfus Affair
- Eisenhower, Dwight
- Freud, Sigmund
- Hartzell, Oscar
- Hearst, William Randolph
- Historical Narratives, False
- History of Deception: 1600 to 1700
- History of Deception: 1700 to 1800
- History of Deception: 1800 to 1900
- History of Deception: 1900 to 1950
- History of Deception: 1950 to the Present
- History of Deception: Ancient Civilizations
- History of Deception: Medieval Period
- History of Deception: Renaissance
- Hitler, Adolf
- Inca Empire
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Irving, Clifford
- Jackalope
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Kennedy, John F.
- Korean War
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Madoff, Bernard
- Memoirs
- Myth
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Native Americans
- Nazi Propaganda
- Newman, Cardinal
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nixon, Richard
- Normandy, Allied Invasion of
- Nostradamus
- Operation Bodyguard
- Operation Mincemeat
- Operation Neptune
- Operation Quicksilver
- Piltdown Man
- Plato
- Rose, Pete
- Santa Claus
- Siege of Mafeking
- Spanish-American Conquests
- Stalin, Josef
- Stewart, Martha
- Sun Tzu
- Trojan Horse
- UFOs
- Urban Legends
- Vietnam War
- Washington, George
- White House Press Secretaries
- World War I
- World War II
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