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NCJ 138785
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| Title:
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Analysis of Deceptiveness: Incarcerated Prisoners
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| Journal:
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Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling Volume:13 Issue:1 Dated:(October 1992) Pages:23-32
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| Author(s):
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L W Benedict ; R I Lanyon
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| Publication Date:
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1992 |
| Pages:
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10 |
| Type:
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Applied research |
| Origin:
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United States |
| Language:
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English |
| Annotation:
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Data collected from a sample of 305 incarcerated male criminal offenders in an Arizona county jail were used to perform a detailed analysis of the content of measures of faking-good and faking-bad as related to deliberate deception in self-presentation. The authors hypothesized that there would be little, if any, overlap in item content. |
| Abstract:
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Universes of content for deceptive behavior were created using 259 items of 9 deception scales taken from common inventories. The results showed that, for incarcerated prisoners, item content related to faking-bad involved the endorsement of psychiatric symptoms including paranoid ideation, extreme anxiety, and depression. Item content related to faking-good involved the endorsement of highly desirable characteristics and the denial of normal, but less desirable, traits. When the study was replicated using a sample of 409 university students, fewer reliable factors appeared, probably because deception was not a salient issue for this sample. However, the limited results did support the finding of separate and distinct item content for faking-good and faking-bad behaviors. The authors contend that success at deception depends on the deceiver's knowledge, both factual and experiential, of the characteristics that are possessed by persons of the targeted type. 1 table and 17 references |
| Main Term(s):
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Behavior typologies ; Inmate characteristics |
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Arizona |
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