Essays on Deception

Business Ethics Antitrust Law

Business Ethics Antitrust Law

Introduction

The antitrust laws aim at ensuring that all businesses in a given market play by the same rules. This is so because businesses in a free market may achieve the near-monopoly status via their own merits such as creating better production processes, offering the best quality service and decreasing costs among others. However, antitrust laws set vivid boundaries for fairness in the business by prohibiting practices that control free trading. It also restrains dominant firms from abusing their market position. The antitrust laws offer regulatory review of business mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to ensure

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Human factor is the major challenge that stands on the way of the specialists in the field of criminal law. Sometimes, the clues may be confusing and the only way to solve the case is retrieving the answer from the people involved. This is when deception and lie become the ultimate challenge in the struggle for the truth. To deal with this problem, the science offered the criminalists a marvelous solution – the lie detector, the device that recognizes the lie. But is it really that good and accurate? The work of the polygraph is based on reading the basic

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What is CVSA?

Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) is a lie detection software program that is designed to measure the changes in a subject’s voice patterns caused by physical efforts or stress as he tries to hide deceptive responses when speaking during an investigative interview. The CVSA program is among lie detection technologies that purport to work by analyzing voice stresses (Damphousse, 2014). During testing process, a subject will be speaking as the microphone plugged into the computer taps his voice patterns for analysis. When the subject speaks, frequencies of his voice patterns will form dynamic graphs on the computer screen.

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Many people use deception to either cover up their deeds or to try to uncover the deeds of others. As one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet is a play that has many deception themes throughout its story. Three forms of deception can be seen in Hamlet that is the fear of some of the characters that they are being deceived by others, the act of deceiving others, and the outcome of the deception. In the play, many of the characters such as Claudius, Hamlet, and Polonius all used various forms of deception to either hide information from

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Introduction

The Cherokee Nation was a very contentious matter in the quest of the United States (US) to expand its territorial domains westward of North America during the 19th century. Although the Cherokees, regarded by the US as an Indian tribe, have asserted their right to sovereignty over part of what is now known as the state of Georgia, they are nevertheless subjected to a series of paper trails by the US government that, in turn, led it to acquire jurisdiction over their lands. It is from that moment where calls for an independent Cherokee Nation grew stronger, yet President

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Deception is the most unethical activity that can be associated with scientific communication. This may take place during data gathering or during experiments. One common practice in the medical field is the use of the placebo in their experiments. Here, patients are given tablets saying that such items are drugs to cure their ailment. To test the efficacy of the real drugs, placebo tablets are given to the control group. Even the ones who are taking only placebo feel that they are getting better.. The placebo effect or the healing effect is often experienced durng control trials. Wampold et

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In the quest for certainty, Descartes realizes that some of his beliefs he holds are wrong or bad. After realizing the possibility of having bad beliefs, Descartes notes that other beliefs might be bad too. Such a situation arises since the basis of most of the beliefs is based on flawed reasoning or other bad beliefs. Therefore, Descartes wants a belief system devoid of false and uncertain beliefs, whether in themselves or the basis on which they exist. Such a belief system ought to have a basic foundation with basic beliefs that can justify other beliefs while they, do

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Introduction

Individuals hold different ideas regarding ‘reality.’ People base these concepts on sensorial perceptions, which mean that some of the experiences one holds about the world revolve around a deception, which prevents them from understanding the truth. Plato dug into the idea of sensorial deception in “The Cave” and “The Matrix,” which mimicked the story and explored realism of deception.

Question 1

The matrix raises questions relating to reality, which resemble those asked by Plato in “The Cave.” Plato asks readers to envision human beings as captives who live in a dark cave located underground. Furthermore, he insists that individuals live in

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Our senses are our main way of intermingling with the world. Even before one learns to be in control of their emotions, before learning the use of language or reason, senses plays a great role in one’s knowledge acquisition. Sense perception is expected to offer a sense of direction but in many cases it has proven that the knowledge acquired through perception is largely ambiguous and impractical and has thus deceived or misdirected many people (Descartes, 13). Many people therefore find themselves at crossroads whether to believe the knowledge acquired through sense perception or not and this has

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1. Milgram’s Obedience Experiment is considered as one of the most controversial experiment in the field of research. Arguments questioning the experiment mentioned that most of the procedure involvement violates ethical consideration in experiment administration. The methods in the controversial research impacts the participants because it gives them the impression that they are harming other people, but must continue for the sake of the research. It can cause future harm in the mental state of the participant because it questions both their values and provide them with the wrong impression of research compliance. Cozby &Bates mentioned several actions

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The terms moral and ethics are used interchangeably. However, both of these terms are based on the individual’s religious, social and personal upbringing. On many occasions, one may find that morals are influenced by an individual’s personal values system about good or evil behavior, whereas ethics refers to questions of right and wrong deeds. In essence, morality goes beyond the norms of the culture, but ethics reflects the professional and lawful principles that exist in a particular place and time. Morality results in a standard of ethical behavioral patterns as they relate to the particular time and

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Deception by the Investigating Officer in the Investigative, Interrogative, and Testimonial Processes

Deception is a deliberate act to mislead people involved in criminality. Deception acts as a balance between disclosing enough information that satisfies the interrogator while hiding any information that can lead to detection. Interrogators control the information and impression management to maximize the detection of deception. The strategy of deception prepares and recounts fictitious accounts of a target event. Investigators rely on deception as a chief tool to lure culprits to give them facts related to crimes. Police interrogators often rely on psychological procedures that use deception as a key component. The interrogation procedures encourage rational people to make

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Article Review on the Impacts of Deception in Marketing Research

The article relates to the degrading ethical standards in marketing research. Many marketing researchers find it necessary to give misleading information to their study participants, which often lead to potential negative consequences of deceptive marketing practices.Theoretical critique
The article provides a conceptual starting point, where managers can develop a complete understanding of deception in marketing research that includes ethical analysis from a theoretical point of view of consequentialism. Methodological critique
The method used by the researchers is valid as it sets the necessary ethical standards for a theoretical point of view; hence it provides the correct conclusions.

Managerial critique

This research

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Introduction

Deception is the act of telling a deliberate lie or giving some misleading information deliberately. It is a very common act within the society, and self-reporting researches have shown that every person tells approximately two lies per day and tells a lie once in every four, social interactions (Albrechtsen, 2010). Bearing in mind that the decisions made in the criminal justice system has severe consequences on an individual, there raises the question of whether deception is ethical within this system, and whether the end justifies the means. This paper aims at investigating deception by the investigation officers within the

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The search for love and a soul mate has been taken online with the advent of online dating. Today sites like PerfectMatch.com, e-harmony and Chemistry.com have emerged to take advantage of this ever increasing need for love and the fact that more people today have access to the internet either through a personal computer or a mobile phone. The main question however is, does online dating work? There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows that for most people it does not work and that conventional dating works better than online dating.
Online dating is characterized by a

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The AMA code ethics’ major concern is to foster professionalism coupled with ethical norms and standards for its members. Whoever is aware of these standards is said to have violated them because in one way or another, they happen to create some degree of harm or discontent to the victim.
Moore is in a difficult situation where he has to save the business at the expense of his family corporation employees. However, he is granted to save their job too. But the situation is tricky! The officer puts him in a dilemma when he asks him to include the

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Article review:

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Persuading others is not an easy task. This is mainly because it mainly involves in making an individual agree with what one is telling them. A number of communication skills are important in ensuring that one can persuade others. For example, in their line of work sales people are tasked with the job of persuading people to buy their product. Thus, the sales people must employ certain skill sets that will allow them to convince others. The first is being confident. In order to be able to persuade people one needs to be confident. Confidence is synonymous with

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Deception means an act that aims to defraud others by misleading them to believe something which is totally false. I could think of an instance when deception could have been made possible. In social networking sites, a user could actually register using a different name and demographic details (age, gender, educational background, employment) and pose as a person with the given identity. Likewise, within the family, I remember telling my mother that I have finished all my assignments in school when I have partially complied with some or have not done any yet. These are examples of deception.
Normally,

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Psychology – Why People Lie

The most common malady of the human race isn’t the common cold as most people would have you believe, it is the need to be better than everyone else. Fame, fortune, pride. While these traits can be achieved through honest means, there will always come a time when people will lie. Sometimes it’s not for the three traits, sometimes it’s to protect the people you love, sometimes it is because you are angry at someone and simply wish to hurt them, sometimes it’s even to make someone happy. Regardless of the reason and form however,

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