The results indicated that gilding or communicative behavior intended by the communicator to falsify what he actually believes to be “true” was perceived in all phases of everyday life. These results suggest the ubiquity of gilding which emerged from the findings that the incumbents of all of the 20 roles were perceived as distorting what they believe to be “true.”
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