of deceptive words and broadening the definition of deception. The study looked at similarity judgments of forty-six deception-related terms. The terms were subjected to cluster analysis, which revealed six families of deception: fictions, playings, lies, crimes, masks, and unlies.
             Fictions refer to those words that emphasize the structural properties of deceptive communication. Words such as "tall tale" and "white lie" belong to this category.
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