White lies

S Erat, U Gneezy - Management science, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
white lies: those that help others at the expense of the person telling the lie, which we term
altruistic white lies… and the liar, which we term Pareto white lies. We find that a large fraction of …

Are white lies as innocuous as we think?

JJ Argo, B Shiv - Journal of Consumer Research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… an “innocent” white lie after a negative interpersonal encounter. We propose that if a white lie
falls … In study 1, we explore the impact of one factor that determines whether a white lie falls …

Children's understanding about white lies

KA Broomfield, EJ Robinson… - British Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… adults would commonly judge it appropriate to tell a white lie. Our main focus was on the …
to label the false statements they suggest ‘white lies’. Another possibility is that children …

[PDF][PDF] Real lies, white lies and gray lies: Towards a typology of deception

EM Bryant - Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of …, 2008 - digitalcommons.trinity.edu
… college students perceive white lies and differentiate them from other types of lies using in-…
lies: real lies, white lies, and gray lies. In order to differentiate between the three types of lies

White lies in interpersonal communication: A taxonomy and preliminary investigation of social motivations

C Camden, MT Motley, A Wilson - Western Journal of speech …, 1984 - Taylor & Francis
… self-esteem lies by sex and type. In both this analysis and in the interaction avoidance lies
discussed above, women seem to use white lies to avoid being "tactless." Their white lies are …

Telling more: Lies, secrets, and history

L White - History and Theory, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… and lies are not forms of withholding information but forms by which information is valorized.
Lies are constructed: what is to be lied about, what a lie is … All of this makes lies and secrets …

From little white lies to filthy liars: The evolution of honesty and deception in young children

V Talwar, A Crossman - Advances in child development and behavior, 2011 - Elsevier
… , are here termed prosocial lies (see Table I). These lies (sometimes called “white lies”) are
… Prosocial lies tend to be accepted by social conventions and are evaluated less negatively …

Privaricator: Deceiving fingerprinters with little white lies

N Nikiforakis, W Joosen, B Livshits - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Researchers have shown that, in recent years, unwanted web tracking is on the rise, with
browser-based fingerprinting being adopted by more and more websites as a viable alternative …

Children tell white lies to make others feel better

F Warneken, E Orlins - British Journal of Developmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
white lies simply out of politeness or as a means to improve another person's mood. A first
experimental phase probed children's individual insight to use white lies … to tell a white lie than …

[图书][B] White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

J Samson - 1989 - books.google.com
White Lies, John Samson offers full contextual readings of Melville's five major narratives
of facts--Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White… narration endorsed by white patriarchal culture. …