Interpersonal Communication

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Interpersonal Deception

Lippard, V. P. (winter 1988). “Ask Me No Questions, Ill Tell You No Lies”. Western Journal of communication, 52, 91-103.

“Ask Me no More Questions I’ll tell you no Lies” written by Paula V. Lippard. This a research article about her study on interpersonal deception. Interpersonal Deception is a study of how people lie or deceive others while they are communicating. Lippard takes the findings of three authors before her. She brings them together and adds new research fulfilling its need for further information. In Lippards study, she will take voluntary college students and have them record every act of deception. They will be record every act over a three week period.
Lippard used a past article write by Carl Camden, Michael T. Motley, and Ann Wilson in 1984. Lippard used some of the articles information before doing her study.(Camden, 1984) Camden states that lies are the most common form of duplicity used by man. Camden used the term white lies for social exaggerations or harmless deceptions and black lies for more serious trust breaking deceptions. In the study, they used 130 subjects recording the subjects natural conversations. Camden looked and studied the variety in answers during the conversations. In his conclusion, he found how frequent people actually lie. People lie in order to help cope with certain social contexts, sex, power, relationships ect. They feel that a white lie can be a better alternative to their misfortunes.(Camden, 1984)
Another article lippard used was written by Dale Hample in 1980. He said that lies seem to be regarded as pollutants of communication, rather than as phenomena of intrinsic interest.(Hample 1980) Dale Hample’s research deals mostly with finding out when a lie occurs not so much understanding the lie. He used three tests in his research an open-minded questionnaire, tape recorded interviews, and a large social survey. Hamples s...