Is there variation across cultures in what counts as a lie? Here we present evidence for a
potentially unique conceptualization of lying in Shuar-Achuar communities in Ecuador …

The present study examines cross-cultural differences in people's concept of lying with
regard to the question of whether lying requires an agent to say something they believe to …

Subjective falsity, or speaker's belief that a statement is false, has been argued by
philosophers to be the necessary condition for a lie. Results from an empirical study with …

While philosophers largely discussed the concept of lying from a conceptual analytical
approach, less research was focus on the empirical basis of those ideas. This dissertation …

Lying has been explored by scholars in a number of fields, from philosophy to linguistics.
From the perspective of philosophy, several scholars have provided a definition of the word …

Abstract Concepts help us to represent the world. They underly how we organize our
thinking regarding beliefs and complex structures, such as prototypes or theories. While …

Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm, Stockholm University, tamm@ ling. su. se Alice Bondarenko,
Stockholm University, alice. bondarenko@ ling. su. se Henrik Bergqvist, University of …

This paper aims to explore (1) what order of elements of a prototypical lie proposed by
Coleman and Kay (1981) has been shown by Hungarians' conception of lying from the point …

There are four common requirements of the definition of 'lie'; they are (1) falsehood of a
statement,(2) speaker's belief regarding the falsehood,(3) intention to deceive the hearer …