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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791781703321

Autore

Taylor Rachel <1974-, >

Titolo

Deception : a young person's life skill? / / Rachel Taylor and Lynsey Gozna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Psychology Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-84518-6

1-136-84519-4

1-283-04148-0

9786613041487

0-203-83370-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Studies in Adolescent Development ; ; v.v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

GoznaLynsey <1974->

Disciplina

155.5/18

Soggetti

Deception in adolescence

Truthfulness and falsehood in adolescence

Deception - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The development of deceptive communication; 2 Factors influencing adolescent communication; 3 Deceptive interactions and communications; 4 Strategies and tactics in interpersonal interactions; 5 Challenges of conduct and personality; 6 Techniques in detecting deceit; 7 Conclusions, thoughts and future directions; References; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the role of deception during adolescence, and explores the factors which underpin adolescents' choice to deceive, whether these deceptions will be successful, and the ways in which such lies could be detected. While deception is considered to be antisocial or even pathological in some circumstances, the central argument of this book is that lying can be a skilled behaviour which is necessary to allow adolescents to establish autonomy.Deception builds on the recent influential developmental challenge model (Hendry and Kloep, 2002, 2009), exploring how it c