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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." -
1voteTwo 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.
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