2006
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2006.9.54
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Online Deception: Prevalence, Motivation, and Emotion

Abstract: This research has three goals: first, to find out how prevalent online deception is within a sample of Israeli users, second, to explore the underlying motivations to deceive online, and third, to discover the emotions that accompany online deception. A web-based survey was distributed in 14 discussion groups, and the answers of 257 respondents were analyzed. It was found that, while most of the respondents believe that online deception is very widespread, only about one-third of them reported engaging in onli… Show more

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“…This is in line with Caspi & Gorsky (2006) who showed that more frequent Internet use was associated with greater online interpersonal deception. Additionally, Zimbler & Feldman (2011) found that people are more deceptive over communication modalities (email, IM) than face-to-face.…”
Section: Deception With Social Mediasupporting
confidence: 90%
“…This is in line with Caspi & Gorsky (2006) who showed that more frequent Internet use was associated with greater online interpersonal deception. Additionally, Zimbler & Feldman (2011) found that people are more deceptive over communication modalities (email, IM) than face-to-face.…”
Section: Deception With Social Mediasupporting
confidence: 90%
“…This phenomenon, known as the online disinhibition effect [24,18], is understood to be as a result of the less socially-constraining nature of online communications [7] possibly resulting from the asynchronous or anonymous characteristics therein. The nature of online disinhibition can be described [18] as behaviour which is characterized by an apparent reduction in concerns for self-presentation and the judgment of others.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Survey completion rates among eligible participants were similar between recruitment methods. This finding is promising for social media recruitment as a data collection methodprevious research has shown that collecting data entirely online leads to lower levels of participant accountability, which results from higher levels of psychological distance between researcher and participant in online studies (compared to studies involving some level of faceto face contact between researcher and participant) [42][43][44]. Rather than affecting completion rates, this psychological distance may instead have played out in terms of data quality.…”
Section: Principal Resultsmentioning
confidence: 90%