Steven A Mccornack
Biographic Data
| ID | 158771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven A Mccornack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccornack |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORNACK S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2290-3477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Mapping the Information Flow Within Deceptive Messages: A Test of the IM Propositions of IMT2
This paper presents results from the first formal empirical test of Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2). Specifically, two hypotheses were posited based upon three of the information manipulation (IM) propositions of IMT2. First, we predicted that a systematic rank ordering should be observable regarding the frequency of various types of information manipulation within deceptive messages; such that Gricean Quality violations are more frequen…
Can We Be Honest? Cognition, Intention, Speech Production, and the Future of Deception Research
The last many years have given us clear and startling insights into human cognition and the process of human speech production. Yet much of current deception research eschews such revelations. Specifically, many deception scholars continue to presume a top-down, sequential-stepwise, selection-based speech production model that begins with a singular intent-to-deceive and ends with selection between binary discourse options-truth versus lie-that t…
An Introduction to Advances in Deception Theory
Theorizing About Deception
This essay provides a unifying commentary concluding this special issue on new theories of deception. Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) and Truth-Default Theory (TDT) offer perspectives of deception that contrast with many past and current approaches. Key points of difference between these new theories and prior works include how deception is defined, the centrality of deception cues, the role of stakes in deception, the importance of comm…
Information Manipulation Theory 2: A Propositional Theory of Deceptive Discourse Production
Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) is a propositional theory of deceptive discourse production that conceptually frames deception as involving the covert manipulation of information along multiple dimensions and as a contextual problem-solving activity driven by the desire for quick, efficient, and viable communicative solutions. IMT2 is rooted in linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, speech production, and artificial intelligence. Synthesiz…
Personal relationships and personal networks - by Malcolm Parks
One measure of a book’s greatness is its impact, the degree to which it challenges and changes beliefs and behaviors. Malcolm Parks’Personal Relationships and Personal Networksgenerates impact. In the wake of reading it, I found myself radically sensitized to how my life is intertwined with the lives of others and forced to reassess my views of interpersonal research and pedagogy. Although Personal Relationshipsis not without flaw, those interest…
How people really detect lies
A primary focus of research in the area of deceptive communication has been on people's ability to detect deception. The premise of the current paper is that participants in previous deception detection experiments may not have had access to the types of information people most often use to detect real-life lies. Further, deception detection experiments require that people make immediate judgements, although lie detection may occur over much long…
Behavioral Adaptation, Confidence, and Heuristic-Based Explanations of the Probing Effect
Journal Article Behavioral Adaptation, Confidence, and Heuristic-Based Explanations of the Probing Effect Get access Timothy R. Levine, Timothy R. Levine 1(Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1992), is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. 3Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Tim Levine, Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 Sea…
Accuracy in detecting truths and lies: Documenting the “veracity effect”
Deception research has consistently shown that accuracy rates tend to be just over fifty percent when accuracy rates are averaged across truthful and deceptive messages and when an equal number of truths and lies are judged. Breaking accuracy rates down by truths and lies, however, leads to a radically different conclusion. Across three studies, a large and consistent veracity effect was evident. Truths are most often correctly identified as hone…
Speaking of information manipulation: A critical rejoinder
This essay critically examines two articles addressing deceptive messages. We take exception with the Jacobs, Dawson, and Brashers claim that IMT is inconsistent with Grice, and compare their arguments to those of Grice. The Jacobs et al. data are reanalyzed and shown to be inconsistent with their premise that deception derives solely from erroneous Quality implicatures. Burgoon, Buller, Guerrero, Afifi, and Feldman's article describing informati…
Can Behavioral Adaptation Explain the Probing Effect? Rejoinder to Buller et al
Journal Article Can Behavioral Adaptation Explain the Probing Effect? Rejoinder to Buller et al. Get access Timothy R. Levine, Timothy R. Levine 1University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven A. McCornack Steven A. McCornack 2Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 22, Issue 4, June 1996, …
A Critical Analysis of the Behavioral Adaptation Explanation of the Probing Effect
Deception researchers interested in the effects of interrogative probing repeatedly have documented that probed sources are rated as more honest than nonprobed sources. This finding has been labeled "the probing effect." The commonly accepted explanation for the probing effect is the behavioral adaptation explanation (BAE). The BAE posits that probing causes message sources to strategically adapt behavioral cues so as to appear "honest." This beh…
When the alteration of information is viewed as deception: An empirical test of information manipulation theory
This study provides the first empirical test of Information Manipulation Theory. IMT posits that individuals manipulate information simultaneously along several different dimensions in verbally deceiving others, the result being a potentially infinite range of specific message types. In the companion to this piece (McCornack, 1992), different deception‐provoking situations were generated, and examples of deceptive messages were produced and analy…
Information manipulation theory
One way of thinking about how deceptive messages are generated is in terms of how the information that interactants possess is manipulated within the messages that they produce. Information Manipulation Theory suggests that deceptive messages function deceptively because they covertly violate the principles that govern conversational exchanges. Given that conversational interactants possess assumptions regarding the quantity, quality, manner, and…
Linking Love and Lies: A Formal Test of the Mccornack and Parks Model of Deception Detection
This paper reports a replication and extension of the McCornack & Parks model of relational deception detection which argued that the association between relational involvement and accuracy in detecting deception is mediated by judgmental confidence and truth-bias; and that relational involvement, confidence, truth-bias and accuracy form a causal chain. Recent research testing some of these links has yielded results which cast doubt upon the vali…
When lies are uncovered: Emotional and relational outcomes of discovered deception
The current article explores the impact that the discovery of deception has upon emotional intensity, negativity of emotional reaction, and relational stability for individuals involved in relationships. Drawing upon contemporary conceptualizations of emotion and cognition, several hypotheses and research questions were developed and tested in a sample of 190 subjects who had recently discovered the lie of a relational partner. The results sugges…
When lovers become leery: The relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception
Although researchers of relational deception have recently become interested in the role that suspicion plays in the deception process, a more thorough examination of the relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception is warranted. Previous researchers have not found a significant relationship between suspicion and accuracy. In the current paper, we argue that the lack of findings in previous research can be attributed to meth…
What Women Know that Men don't: Sex Differences in Determining the Truth Behind Deceptive Messages
While a good deal of research has been devoted to studying individual accuracy in detecting deceptiveness, a neglected issue involves the ability of individuals to accurately discern the truth that is obscured by deceptive messages. Methodological considerations have limited the generalizability of previous research findings in this area. Drawing upon a conceptualization of deception as a relational phenomenon, three hypotheses were developed and…
Message Design Logic and Message Goal Structure Effects on Perceptions of Message Quality in Regulative Communication Situations
O'Keefe has suggested that variations in the goal sets individuals choose to pursue and the form of reasoning they employ are sources of variation in message designs. She offered an analysis of the specific consequences of differences in goals (“message goal structure”) and in forms of reasoning (“message design logics”), and shouted how this analysis could be used to describe systematically functional variations in regulative messages. The study…
Deception Detection and Relationship Development: The Other Side of Trust
(1986). Deception Detection and Relationship Development: The Other Side of Trust. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 9, Communication Yearbook 9, pp. 377-389
Information manipulation theory
One way of thinking about how deceptive messages are generated is in terms of how the information that interactants possess is manipulated within the messages that they produce. Information Manipulation Theory suggests that deceptive messages function deceptively because they covertly violate the principles that govern conversational exchanges. Given that conversational interactants possess assumptions regarding the quantity, quality, manner, and…
Accuracy in detecting truths and lies: Documenting the “veracity effect”
Deception research has consistently shown that accuracy rates tend to be just over fifty percent when accuracy rates are averaged across truthful and deceptive messages and when an equal number of truths and lies are judged. Breaking accuracy rates down by truths and lies, however, leads to a radically different conclusion. Across three studies, a large and consistent veracity effect was evident. Truths are most often correctly identified as hone…
Message Design Logic and Message Goal Structure Effects on Perceptions of Message Quality in Regulative Communication Situations
O'Keefe has suggested that variations in the goal sets individuals choose to pursue and the form of reasoning they employ are sources of variation in message designs. She offered an analysis of the specific consequences of differences in goals (“message goal structure”) and in forms of reasoning (“message design logics”), and shouted how this analysis could be used to describe systematically functional variations in regulative messages. The study…
When lovers become leery: The relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception
Although researchers of relational deception have recently become interested in the role that suspicion plays in the deception process, a more thorough examination of the relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception is warranted. Previous researchers have not found a significant relationship between suspicion and accuracy. In the current paper, we argue that the lack of findings in previous research can be attributed to meth…
When lies are uncovered: Emotional and relational outcomes of discovered deception
The current article explores the impact that the discovery of deception has upon emotional intensity, negativity of emotional reaction, and relational stability for individuals involved in relationships. Drawing upon contemporary conceptualizations of emotion and cognition, several hypotheses and research questions were developed and tested in a sample of 190 subjects who had recently discovered the lie of a relational partner. The results sugges…
Information Manipulation Theory 2: A Propositional Theory of Deceptive Discourse Production
Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) is a propositional theory of deceptive discourse production that conceptually frames deception as involving the covert manipulation of information along multiple dimensions and as a contextual problem-solving activity driven by the desire for quick, efficient, and viable communicative solutions. IMT2 is rooted in linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, speech production, and artificial intelligence. Synthesiz…
How people really detect lies
A primary focus of research in the area of deceptive communication has been on people's ability to detect deception. The premise of the current paper is that participants in previous deception detection experiments may not have had access to the types of information people most often use to detect real-life lies. Further, deception detection experiments require that people make immediate judgements, although lie detection may occur over much long…
Linking Love and Lies: A Formal Test of the Mccornack and Parks Model of Deception Detection
This paper reports a replication and extension of the McCornack & Parks model of relational deception detection which argued that the association between relational involvement and accuracy in detecting deception is mediated by judgmental confidence and truth-bias; and that relational involvement, confidence, truth-bias and accuracy form a causal chain. Recent research testing some of these links has yielded results which cast doubt upon the vali…
Deception Detection and Relationship Development: The Other Side of Trust
(1986). Deception Detection and Relationship Development: The Other Side of Trust. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 9, Communication Yearbook 9, pp. 377-389
When the alteration of information is viewed as deception: An empirical test of information manipulation theory
This study provides the first empirical test of Information Manipulation Theory. IMT posits that individuals manipulate information simultaneously along several different dimensions in verbally deceiving others, the result being a potentially infinite range of specific message types. In the companion to this piece (McCornack, 1992), different deception‐provoking situations were generated, and examples of deceptive messages were produced and analy…
What Women Know that Men don't: Sex Differences in Determining the Truth Behind Deceptive Messages
While a good deal of research has been devoted to studying individual accuracy in detecting deceptiveness, a neglected issue involves the ability of individuals to accurately discern the truth that is obscured by deceptive messages. Methodological considerations have limited the generalizability of previous research findings in this area. Drawing upon a conceptualization of deception as a relational phenomenon, three hypotheses were developed and…
A Critical Analysis of the Behavioral Adaptation Explanation of the Probing Effect
Deception researchers interested in the effects of interrogative probing repeatedly have documented that probed sources are rated as more honest than nonprobed sources. This finding has been labeled "the probing effect." The commonly accepted explanation for the probing effect is the behavioral adaptation explanation (BAE). The BAE posits that probing causes message sources to strategically adapt behavioral cues so as to appear "honest." This beh…
Theorizing About Deception
This essay provides a unifying commentary concluding this special issue on new theories of deception. Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) and Truth-Default Theory (TDT) offer perspectives of deception that contrast with many past and current approaches. Key points of difference between these new theories and prior works include how deception is defined, the centrality of deception cues, the role of stakes in deception, the importance of comm…
Can We Be Honest? Cognition, Intention, Speech Production, and the Future of Deception Research
The last many years have given us clear and startling insights into human cognition and the process of human speech production. Yet much of current deception research eschews such revelations. Specifically, many deception scholars continue to presume a top-down, sequential-stepwise, selection-based speech production model that begins with a singular intent-to-deceive and ends with selection between binary discourse options-truth versus lie-that t…
Speaking of information manipulation: A critical rejoinder
This essay critically examines two articles addressing deceptive messages. We take exception with the Jacobs, Dawson, and Brashers claim that IMT is inconsistent with Grice, and compare their arguments to those of Grice. The Jacobs et al. data are reanalyzed and shown to be inconsistent with their premise that deception derives solely from erroneous Quality implicatures. Burgoon, Buller, Guerrero, Afifi, and Feldman's article describing informati…
Can Behavioral Adaptation Explain the Probing Effect? Rejoinder to Buller et al
Journal Article Can Behavioral Adaptation Explain the Probing Effect? Rejoinder to Buller et al. Get access Timothy R. Levine, Timothy R. Levine 1University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven A. McCornack Steven A. McCornack 2Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 22, Issue 4, June 1996, …
Deception Detection and Relationship Development: The Other Side of Trust
(1986). Deception Detection and Relationship Development: The Other Side of Trust. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 9, Communication Yearbook 9, pp. 377-389
Message Design Logic and Message Goal Structure Effects on Perceptions of Message Quality in Regulative Communication Situations
O'Keefe has suggested that variations in the goal sets individuals choose to pursue and the form of reasoning they employ are sources of variation in message designs. She offered an analysis of the specific consequences of differences in goals (“message goal structure”) and in forms of reasoning (“message design logics”), and shouted how this analysis could be used to describe systematically functional variations in regulative messages. The study…
When lies are uncovered: Emotional and relational outcomes of discovered deception
The current article explores the impact that the discovery of deception has upon emotional intensity, negativity of emotional reaction, and relational stability for individuals involved in relationships. Drawing upon contemporary conceptualizations of emotion and cognition, several hypotheses and research questions were developed and tested in a sample of 190 subjects who had recently discovered the lie of a relational partner. The results sugges…
When lovers become leery: The relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception
Although researchers of relational deception have recently become interested in the role that suspicion plays in the deception process, a more thorough examination of the relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception is warranted. Previous researchers have not found a significant relationship between suspicion and accuracy. In the current paper, we argue that the lack of findings in previous research can be attributed to meth…
What Women Know that Men don't: Sex Differences in Determining the Truth Behind Deceptive Messages
While a good deal of research has been devoted to studying individual accuracy in detecting deceptiveness, a neglected issue involves the ability of individuals to accurately discern the truth that is obscured by deceptive messages. Methodological considerations have limited the generalizability of previous research findings in this area. Drawing upon a conceptualization of deception as a relational phenomenon, three hypotheses were developed and…
When the alteration of information is viewed as deception: An empirical test of information manipulation theory
This study provides the first empirical test of Information Manipulation Theory. IMT posits that individuals manipulate information simultaneously along several different dimensions in verbally deceiving others, the result being a potentially infinite range of specific message types. In the companion to this piece (McCornack, 1992), different deception‐provoking situations were generated, and examples of deceptive messages were produced and analy…
Information manipulation theory
One way of thinking about how deceptive messages are generated is in terms of how the information that interactants possess is manipulated within the messages that they produce. Information Manipulation Theory suggests that deceptive messages function deceptively because they covertly violate the principles that govern conversational exchanges. Given that conversational interactants possess assumptions regarding the quantity, quality, manner, and…
Linking Love and Lies: A Formal Test of the Mccornack and Parks Model of Deception Detection
This paper reports a replication and extension of the McCornack & Parks model of relational deception detection which argued that the association between relational involvement and accuracy in detecting deception is mediated by judgmental confidence and truth-bias; and that relational involvement, confidence, truth-bias and accuracy form a causal chain. Recent research testing some of these links has yielded results which cast doubt upon the vali…
Speaking of information manipulation: A critical rejoinder
This essay critically examines two articles addressing deceptive messages. We take exception with the Jacobs, Dawson, and Brashers claim that IMT is inconsistent with Grice, and compare their arguments to those of Grice. The Jacobs et al. data are reanalyzed and shown to be inconsistent with their premise that deception derives solely from erroneous Quality implicatures. Burgoon, Buller, Guerrero, Afifi, and Feldman's article describing informati…
Can Behavioral Adaptation Explain the Probing Effect? Rejoinder to Buller et al
Journal Article Can Behavioral Adaptation Explain the Probing Effect? Rejoinder to Buller et al. Get access Timothy R. Levine, Timothy R. Levine 1University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven A. McCornack Steven A. McCornack 2Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Human Communication Research, Volume 22, Issue 4, June 1996, …
A Critical Analysis of the Behavioral Adaptation Explanation of the Probing Effect
Deception researchers interested in the effects of interrogative probing repeatedly have documented that probed sources are rated as more honest than nonprobed sources. This finding has been labeled "the probing effect." The commonly accepted explanation for the probing effect is the behavioral adaptation explanation (BAE). The BAE posits that probing causes message sources to strategically adapt behavioral cues so as to appear "honest." This beh…
Accuracy in detecting truths and lies: Documenting the “veracity effect”
Deception research has consistently shown that accuracy rates tend to be just over fifty percent when accuracy rates are averaged across truthful and deceptive messages and when an equal number of truths and lies are judged. Breaking accuracy rates down by truths and lies, however, leads to a radically different conclusion. Across three studies, a large and consistent veracity effect was evident. Truths are most often correctly identified as hone…
Behavioral Adaptation, Confidence, and Heuristic-Based Explanations of the Probing Effect
Journal Article Behavioral Adaptation, Confidence, and Heuristic-Based Explanations of the Probing Effect Get access Timothy R. Levine, Timothy R. Levine 1(Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1992), is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. 3Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Tim Levine, Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 Sea…
How people really detect lies
A primary focus of research in the area of deceptive communication has been on people's ability to detect deception. The premise of the current paper is that participants in previous deception detection experiments may not have had access to the types of information people most often use to detect real-life lies. Further, deception detection experiments require that people make immediate judgements, although lie detection may occur over much long…
Personal relationships and personal networks - by Malcolm Parks
One measure of a book’s greatness is its impact, the degree to which it challenges and changes beliefs and behaviors. Malcolm Parks’Personal Relationships and Personal Networksgenerates impact. In the wake of reading it, I found myself radically sensitized to how my life is intertwined with the lives of others and forced to reassess my views of interpersonal research and pedagogy. Although Personal Relationshipsis not without flaw, those interest…
An Introduction to Advances in Deception Theory
Theorizing About Deception
This essay provides a unifying commentary concluding this special issue on new theories of deception. Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) and Truth-Default Theory (TDT) offer perspectives of deception that contrast with many past and current approaches. Key points of difference between these new theories and prior works include how deception is defined, the centrality of deception cues, the role of stakes in deception, the importance of comm…
Information Manipulation Theory 2: A Propositional Theory of Deceptive Discourse Production
Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) is a propositional theory of deceptive discourse production that conceptually frames deception as involving the covert manipulation of information along multiple dimensions and as a contextual problem-solving activity driven by the desire for quick, efficient, and viable communicative solutions. IMT2 is rooted in linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, speech production, and artificial intelligence. Synthesiz…
Mapping the Information Flow Within Deceptive Messages: A Test of the IM Propositions of IMT2
This paper presents results from the first formal empirical test of Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2). Specifically, two hypotheses were posited based upon three of the information manipulation (IM) propositions of IMT2. First, we predicted that a systematic rank ordering should be observable regarding the frequency of various types of information manipulation within deceptive messages; such that Gricean Quality violations are more frequen…
Can We Be Honest? Cognition, Intention, Speech Production, and the Future of Deception Research
The last many years have given us clear and startling insights into human cognition and the process of human speech production. Yet much of current deception research eschews such revelations. Specifically, many deception scholars continue to presume a top-down, sequential-stepwise, selection-based speech production model that begins with a singular intent-to-deceive and ends with selection between binary discourse options-truth versus lie-that t…
Psychology (19 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Deception (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (6 works)