RELATIONSHIP OF ACCEPTABILITY OF MISLEADING METHODS WITH PERSONAL FEATURES AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR STRATEGIES

Abstract

The article presents the results of an empirical study of personality traits, strategies of social behavior and the acceptability of information manipulation on a sample of youth, mainly female students (n=195). Based on the theory of communicative implicatures by P. Grice and the theory of information manipulation by S. McCornack, a case test with educational and interpersonal situations of communication was created, aimed at studying the choice of admissibility of information manipulation. Correlation analysis revealed that the acceptability of all four forms of information manipulation (lies, deception, inappropriateness, and obscurity) is most closely related to deficiencies in conscientiousness (lack of productivity, organization, and responsibility) and goodwill (lack of trust and empathy). We can observe the connections with individual personality aspects that are unique for different methods of information manipulation. In addition, information manipulation is associated with destructive social strategies of behavior, especially in the intersubjective sphere and in combination with a tendency to devalue the interlocutor.