Does your nose grow when you tell a lie?
Does your nose grow when
you tell a lie?
“A theory of deception in interpersonal communication that bases its predictions about outcomes on the characteristics of the
source, receiver, context, message, feedback, and channel.”
Interpersonal Deception Theory (IDT)
This theory can be used in..
Mass communication
Face-to-face communication
Interpersonal communication
Verbal & Nonverbal
communication
Public
The average person tells 2 lies per day.
So what?
The verdict is in..
This theory has very little
predictive power.
With the influence of new technology, such as text messaging and Facebook, our textbook
authors expect that IDT theorists
will extend previous propositions to account for these increasing media choices for
interaction.