Lies and deception: Robots that use falsehood as a social strategy
Abstract: Dishonesty is found throughout normal interpersonal interaction. A lie is a specific type of dishonesty. A commonly accepted definition of the term “lie” is a false statement made by an individual which knows that the statement is not true (Carson 2006). This chapter explores the computational and social-psychological underpinnings that enable a robot to utter lies using a framework that we already applied to non-verbal deception. We use the interdependence framework as the foundation for analyzing various types of lies, because it provides conceptual tools for understanding the role of the situation and the robot’s disposition in determining whether ...
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