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acción deliberada de propagación de mentiras
AI overview
Deception is when someone deliberately tells others something false, knowing it isn't true while keeping them in the dark about that fact. It matters because it can be used to manipulate people for personal benefit, undermining trust and causing real harm to those who are misled.
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Research
12,339 papers- Deception in clinical trials and its impact on recruitment and adherence of study participants.Contemporary clinical trials · 2018
- Tactical deception in cephalopods: a new framework for understanding cognition.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2025
- Detecting deception in children: A meta-analysis.Law and human behavior · 2017
- Placebos Without Deception: Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Ethics.International review of neurobiology · 2018
- Altruistic deception.Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences · 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- abuse
- Image
- Monnaie de singe.jpg
- Said to be same as
- dishonesty
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- topic's main category
- Category:Deception
- Commons category
- Deception
- uses
- lie
- has characteristic
- intention
- opposite of
- honesty
- different from
- Decepticon
- handled, mitigated, or managed by
- lie detection
- role of agent(s) of action
- liar
- P8168
- Fallersleben
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