From Animal to Humans - Multimodality as a safeguard of honesty in communication and language (opens in new tab)

I pass on the abstracts of an article by Hex et al to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the manuscript by emailing me. The abstracts are followed by a commentary on the article.Short AbstractMultimodality characterizes nearly every communicative system, and we argue that this feature of communication plays an essential role in safeguarding signal honesty. We first discuss the importance of honesty in communication, and introduce socially-mediated c...