http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/katiebda/deception Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://charactercounts.org/programs/reportcard/2006/index.html The 2006 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, a biennial national survey conducted by Josephson Institute and released as part of National CHARACTER COUNTS! Week, October 15-21, reveals high rates of cheating, lying, and theft. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 04:00:47 +0000 may08 research deception http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine/25STOCK-TRADER.html?ex=1210824000&en=00671aaefd61302b&ei=5070 At age 15, Lebed had used the Internet to promote stocks from his bedroom in the northern New Jersey suburb of Cedar Grove. Armed only with accounts at A.O.L. and E*Trade, the kid had bought stock and then, "using multiple fictitious names," posted hundreds of messages on Yahoo Finance message boards recommending that stock to others. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 01:25:38 +0000 may08 deception story identity http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/27mit.html?fta=y Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became well known for urging stressed-out students competing for elite colleges to calm down and stop trying to be perfect. Yesterday she admitted that she had fabricated her own educational credentials, and resigned after nearly three decades at M.I.T. Officials of the institute said she did not have even an undergraduate degree. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 01:01:41 +0000 april07 story deception mit http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/26/mit_admissions_dean_resigns_for_misrepresenting_credentials/ Jones falsely bolstered her credentials to get a job with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and over the course of her career claimed to have earned degrees from three schools. MIT officials say now they have no evidence she ever graduated from college at all. katiebda Wed, 14 May 2008 00:53:15 +0000 april07 story deception mit http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/03/2328232&from=rss "At Hunter College, professors are debating the ethics of a course in which an industry group paid for a class to develop a fake student who would write a fake blog to discourage other students from buying knockoff products. The controversy involves both commercial interference with academic freedom and the ethics of ?guerilla marketing.?" katiebda Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:24:36 +0000 march08 identity story deception http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/15-09/ff_internetlies?currentPage=1 A middle-aged man and woman, both married, start an online romance posing as teenagers. A love triangle develops and the third man is murdered. "How could a mother like that, I asked her, hijack her daughter's identity to seduce strangers? Her answers, unsatisfactory as they are, suggest a profound capacity for self-deception." katiebda Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:52:05 +0000 deception identity story august07 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL The results indicate that in the text-only chat environment, subjects who were deceiving their partner experienced higher anxiety levels than those who were truthful to their partner; however, the same phenomenon was not observed in the avatar-supported chat environment. This suggests that “wearing a mask” in cyberspace may reduce anxiety in deceiving others. Additionally, deceivers are more likely to choose avatars that are different from their real selves. The results also show that the use of avatars in a computer-mediated chat environment does not have an impact on one's perceived trustworthiness. katiebda Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:19:22 +0000 research april07 deception trust identity http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2319 Two researchers at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln have completed a study on “deception in cyberspace,” and they’ve hit on something pretty interesting: In text-based chat rooms, people who are lying generally get anxious. But in virtual worlds that let people create avatars, that edginess seems to fade away. “This suggests that ‘wearing a mask’ in cyberspace may reduce anxiety in deceiving others,” the researchers conclude. katiebda Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:35:19 +0000 deception identity second life august07 participation research trust http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/How_Do_You_Solve_A_Problem_Like_SVMaria? Describes the incident of SVMaria - a girl from Chile who allegedly faked a miscarriage and other details of her life, set up a wish list when she was in the "fake" hospital, and maintained a number of fake LJ user accounts (sock puppets) who reported about her misfortunes and asked for gifts from the LJ community. katiebda Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:58:46 +0000 april07 identity deception kdqpp participation story