Lying to yourself and lying to others:Social desirability and language features

Abstract

We investigate influence on language use of an individual's propensity to deceive (as measured by EPQ-R Lie Scale), rather than deception by assignment to condition. Using previously collected e-mail data and author information, weanalysed High and Low sub-groups using corpus comparison methods which allowed identification of higher-level information. We discuss our findings in relation to the deception literature. Generally there are consistencies in strategies(namely, shifting focus from self); however we note additional features