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Hemispheric Differences In Deception And Fanaticism : A Model Using High Affiliation Sports Fans, Karen J. Kelly
Hemispheric Differences In Deception And Fanaticism : A Model Using High Affiliation Sports Fans, Karen J. Kelly
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Deception is a frequent component of daily conversation and interactions. It is used both casually and deliberately in low and high stakes situations, respectively. A need to develop more accurate and efficient deception detection techniques has become important in response to such high stakes situations in which deliberate deception is employed. Terrorist acts motivated by fanatical beliefs constitute perhaps the most salient and increasingly prevalent example of such high stakes deception. Fanaticism develops in response to a number of belief systems including religion, politics, and sports. The relative accessibility and social acceptability o f sports fanaticism lends itself to experimental …