Deception in the Case of One Sender and Multiple Receivers

摘要

Much if not all of the literature on interpersonal communication and deception has focused on the interaction between two people, with one person attempting to deceive the other. This paper seeks to extend the prior literature by presenting some initial thoughts on deceptive communication when there is one deceiver and multiple receivers. Viewing deceptive communication as a dynamic, strategic process, individual, situational, and group factors that may inform the deceiver of a particular strategy are presented.