"Certain of Amazon.com's and Alexa Internet's practices likely were deceptive," C. Lee Peeler, a commission official, wrote.
In addition, it was predicted that playbacks (conducted in noncompetitive contexts) of calls originally recorded in the each of the two contexts would elicit antipredator reactions (i.e., vigilance or locomotor escape reactions) at different rates, with predator-elicited calls being more likely than deceptive false alarms to elicit a reaction in listeners.
Participants were much more likely to be deceptive toward someone they envied than toward someone they did not.
First-time reviewers were also more likely to post deceptive reviews than those who had reviewed many items.
Without a clear and conspicuous disclosure that the athlete has been engaged as a spokesperson for the clinic, this endorsement is likely to be deceptive.
Likely because of deceptive recruiting, high costs, and weak programs, a large percentage of University of Phoenix students never graduate.
While researchers concluded that people are more likely to be deceptive via text -- Sauder Professor Karl Aquino wrote in a press release, "Our results confirm that the more anonymous the technology allows a person to be in a communications exchange, the more likely they are to become morally lax," the study apparently measured only perceptions of deceit -- what the deceived thought and felt.
Subsequent correlation analyses uncovered two effects: (a) males of species with high sexual activity are more likely to show deceptive mating behavior, i.e., they initially approached more often the non-preferred female when an audience male was presented; while species-level mean aggressiveness did not predict the occurrence of audience effects.
Because subordinate individuals are more likely to give deceptive false alarms than are dominants [Wheeler, 2009], it is possible that the decreased response rate in competitive contexts stems from listeners being more "skeptical" of alarms from subordinates and thus more often ignoring their alarm calls [see Gouzoules et al., 1996].
That is untrue; and 2. That is, or is likely to be, misleading or deceptive.
