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  2. Deception - Wikipedia

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    The interpersonal deception theory posits that interpersonal deception is a dynamic, iterative process of mutual influence between a sender, who manipulates information to depart from the truth, and a receiver, who attempts to establish the validity of the message. [42] A deceiver's actions are interrelated to the message receiver's actions.

  3. Interpersonal deception theory - Wikipedia

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    One criticism is that the theory "confounds emotion and deception", [1] like use of the polygraph [21] in assuming that an innocent person and a guilty one will feel different emotions in a situation which has severe possible outcomes. Concerns with such emotionally-based theories have led later researchers to develop theories based on ...

  4. Truth-default theory - Wikipedia

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    Truth-default theory (TDT) is a communication theory which predicts and explains the use of veracity and deception detection in humans. It was developed upon the discovery of the veracity effect - whereby the proportion of truths versus lies presented in a judgement study on deception will drive accuracy rates.

  5. Cognitive poetics - Wikipedia

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    The theory states that it is due to this relationship that humans are able to interact in these unique methods amongst each other to begin with. The consistent and overlapping nature amongst non-literary and literary backgrounds of language use is especially emphasised through the everyday application of cognitive poetics.

  6. Fiction theory - Wikipedia

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    Fiction theory (also referred to as Fictionality theory) is a discipline that applies a form of possible world theory to literature. Drawing on concepts found in related theories and psychological ideas such as parasocial interaction (PSI) and fictionalism , theorists of fiction study the relationships between perceived textual worlds and ...

  7. Theories of humor - Wikipedia

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    When this occurs material reality, which is always factually true, is the only percept remaining in the mind at such a moment of comic perception. This theory posits, as in Bergson, that human beings accept as real both normative immaterial percepts, such as social identity, and neological factual percepts, but also that the individual subject ...

  8. Immaculate perception - Wikipedia

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    An example of the immaculate perception principle is Sigmund Freud's theory of mental representation, or what some [who?] also refer to "copy theory of perception". [7] He proposed that perception, which he often used interchangeably with "external reality", [8] is sensory-given and immediately known to the subject; [7] therefore, it essentially involves the passive and temporary registration ...

  9. Information manipulation theory - Wikipedia

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    Information Manipulation Theory (abbreviated IMT) is a theory of deceptive discourse production, rooted in H. Paul Grice's theory of conversational implicature. [1] [2] IMT argues that, rather than communicators producing truths and lies, the vast majority of everyday deceptive discourse involves complicated combinations of elements that fall somewhere in between these polar opposites; with ...