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Detecting social signals of honesty and fear of appearing deceitful: A methodological proposal

This paper proposes an original methodology designed to single out the speaker's social signals expressing either honesty or anxiety induced by his awareness of being suspected of deceit. 24 participants were randomly assigned to one of the three following experimental conditions (namely A, B and C), manipulated during a face-to-face interview. In condition A, participants could win an undeserved resource, but only by deceiving by dissimulation the researcher.

Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism: A Matter of Sociology

Understanding Islamic fundamentalism of today requires the frame of a clash not between
civilizations, but between different forms of psychological organization. It is therefore a matter of
sociology, explainable through the innovative approach of dynamic sociology. The term jihad is for
fundamentalists an armed revolution, both against those regimes of Islamic world guilty of apostasy, and
against all non-Islamic countries. At the root of nowadays’ fundamentalism it is not the opposition

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