Web of Deceit - When, Where, and Why People Lie Online
Speaker
Jeff Hancock
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University
When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
Description
Deception is one of the most significant and pervasive social phenomena of our age. At the same time, technologies have pervaded almost all aspects of human communication. The intersection between deception and information technology gives rise to an important set of questions about deception in the digital age. Do people use different media to lie about different types of things, or to different types of people? Are we worse at detecting a lie online than we are face-to-face? Can linguistic patterns that reflect deception be automatically identified and used to assist online deception detection? This talk will discuss these questions and describe some recent research that may shed some light on the answers.
Speaker's Bio
Jeff Hancock is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. His work is concerned with how information technologies—such as email, instant messaging, and videoconferencing—affect the way we talk to and understand one another. His research on lying online has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, CNN, and ABC News. Dr. Hancock earned his PhD in cognitive psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada, and joined Cornell in 2002.
Speaker's Website
http://communication.cals.cornell.edu/people/jeffrey-hancock
Host
Susan Fussell