Interpersonal Deception Theory treats deception as an adaptive exchange shaped by sender strategy, receiver suspicion, familiarity, and feedback. Each participant changes the behavior being judged. The framework helps formulate questions for verification; it does not establish lying from hesitation, gaze, nervousness, or other isolated cues.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.