CMN 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Online Dating Service, Emotional Affair, Infidelity
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Lecture 10 - 3/6 the dark side of communication/interpersonal. Stress, deception: occurs in all types of relationships, family, friends, romance, etc. Happens even in most trustworthy relationships: deception: intentional behavior that creates an impression in the recipient that the deceiver knows is false. Interpersonal deception theory/idt (buller & burgoon 1996) (four: making strategic decisions to manipulate, deceive, not be caught, 4 deceptive strategies. Leave some info out, withholds information changes perceptions of receiver. Doesn"t answer, tries to avoid telling the truth about issue. Idt argues that we are not as good at detecting deception as we think we are. Idt argues that we need to understand communication as interactive. We adjust behaviors in response to feedback: strategic deception takes mental effort (task demands) A lot of cognitive effort made to deceive people. Esp with complex lie that we told a lot of people. Hard to keep track of everything straight for your lie.
