Lying and Deception: Assessment One

Respond to the items below using short answers. Email your responses to comm3150@gmail.com no later than 11:00a, June 14th.

1. How does lying and deception serve as part of our social system?

2. Describe the Knapp's inclination to the four ways we determine what's true. What's your take on this?

3. What's problematic with observation as a method of discerning what is true?

4. Discuss the difference between certainty and the probability of what is interpreted as truth.

5. From your liary, describe how you may have justified lying for the right reason.

6. Describe the purpose, strategy and means of the natural deceiver pictured below:

7. What's the best way for parents to teach children about honesty?

8. How can we be fooling ourselves?

9. Describe and give an example of the blood relatives to lying.

10. Identify five characteristics of Dr. Robert Hale's PCL-R scale and show how at least two of these relate to the female contestant's behavior in the scene below:

From The Inimij Group

The deceiver rehearses the lines, not the moves. When the body becomes incongruent with the mouth, the actions speak truer than the words.

High-risk lying can produce adrenaline, and for some this creates itching especially around the face. Increased scratching is a tell.

"The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible." -Hannah Moore

The eyes have it, but not entirely. Truth detection needs more than movement, squinting, or blink rates. Think vocal speed, pitch, and tone.

Look for the lack of contraction. Those intent on being believed emphasize "did not" instead of "didn't," "cannot" instead of "can't."

The truth untold is held in the balance of preservation and prevention.

Lying and Deception

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Assessment One

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