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deception and lying  

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  • In the United States, deception and lying are widely condemned but widely practiced in all types of human relationships. The nature of a relationship affects and is affected by the frequency of deception, the motivation for deception, the subject matter of the deception, the interactive manifestations of the deception process, the awareness of and desire to detect deception, the accuracy of that detection, the methods used to detect deception, and the consequences of the deception. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Deception and lying]

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