deception

Inferring the truth from deception: What can people learn from helpful and unhelpful information providers?

Sampling assumptions --- the assumptions people make about how an example of a category or concept has been chosen --- help us learn from examples efficiently. One context where sampling assumptions are particularly important is in social contexts, …

Where the truth lies: How sampling implications drive deception without lying

Efficient communication leaves gaps between message and meaning. Interlocutors, by reasoning about how each other reasons, can help to fill these gaps. To the extent that such meta-inference is not calibrated, communication is impaired, raising the …

A cognitive analysis of deception without lying

To catch a liar: The effects of truthful and deceptive testimony on inferential learning