This article discusses why it has become considerably more difficult for the rising generations to enter the system of social and civic relations in today's Kazakh society. This situation is due to the transition from the Soviet model of socialization (which was unitary in terms of its normative character, with equal starting social opportunities…

The purpose of this hearing was to examine the effectiveness and enforcement of Federal laws that exist to prevent fraud and abuse in for-profit education. Testifying before the Committee were: the Honorable Maxine Waters (D-CA), Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives; Thomas A. Carter, Deputy Inspector General, Department of Education,…

Conducts four studies on detecting truth and lies. Suggest that the single best predictor of detection accuracy may be the veracity of message being judged. Finds that truths are judged with substantially greater accuracy than lies. Findings suggest that there is a need for reassessment of many commonly held conclusions about deceptive…

Replicates S. McCornack's 1992 study with the inclusion of explicit checks to determine the covertness of the purported deceptive messages and to check manipulation of information type. Finds that none of the results are consistent with information manipulation theory predictions, but that instead, the results uniformly support a model of…

Examines critically two articles in the same issue addressing deceptive messages. Shows one article's data to be inconsistent with the premise that deception derives solely from erroneous "Quality" implicatures. Argues that the conceptual definitions in the other article lack precision and that the proposed set of information dimensions…

Responds to an article appearing in this issue, that critically examines an article (also appearing in this issue) by these authors. Considers how the information management concept in Interpersonal Deception theory is related to Information Management Theory (called Information Manipulation Theory in earlier articles) and addresses criticisms of…

Responds to an article in the same issue critically examining a first article by these authors. Discusses conceptualizing deception, and discusses the two empirical objections raised regarding the authors' implicature model. Argues that IMT (Information Manipulation Theory) lacks any credible empirical support. (SR)

Three studies examined how reducing the executive function demands of a measure of strategic deception, the windows task, would affect 3-year-olds' performance. Findings demonstrated that providing an artificial response medium, even in the presence of an opponent, and having children play in partnership enabled them to adopt a successful…

I describe a classroom exercise that demonstrates people's inability to detect deception better than chance. In the exercise, students worked in pairs and took turns asking each other a series of questions. Students lied to their partners some of the time, and they in turn attempted to determine when their partners lied to them. Students also…

We sought to profile the voice acoustical correlates of simulated, or feigned depression by neurologically and psychiatrically healthy control subjects. We also sought to identify the voice acoustical correlates of feigned sleepiness for these same subjects. Twenty-two participants were asked to speak freely about a cartoon, to count from 1 to 10,…

This semiannual report to Congress on the activities and accomplishments of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Education (Department) from April 1, 2007, through September 30, 2007, highlights the audits, inspections, investigations, and other activities to illustrate an ongoing commitment to promoting accountability,…

Keying in the search term "Martin Luther King" on Google would result in retrieving martinlutherking.com as the topmost hit. At first glance, it seems like a neutral informational site, but clicking on a few articles will unmask the hate. This site, which is owned by Don Black, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, references King as a…

The phrase "academic bullshit" presents compositionists with a special dilemma. Because compositionists study, teach, and produce academic writing, they are open to the accusation that they both tolerate and perpetuate academic bullshit. We argue that confronting this problem must begin with a careful definition of "bullshit" and "academic…

This study investigated changes in both the liar's and the conversational partner's linguistic style across truthful and deceptive dyadic communication in a synchronous text-based setting. An analysis of 242 transcripts revealed that liars produced more words, more sense-based words (e.g., seeing, touching), and used fewer self-oriented but more…

This paper considers corruption in higher education in Russia as reflected in the national media, including such aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the leading figures of the education reform as related to…