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This study investigated the effects of deception strategy (fabrication and concealment), seriousness
of situations (not serious versus serious), and relational closeness (friend versus acquaintance) on
evaluations of prosocial deception from the observer’s perspective. The participants (N = 154) read
scenarios about situations in which telling the truth was harmful, and evaluated the morality and
acceptability of the statements (i.e., fabrication, concealment, and truth). Results indicated that
fabrications were evaluated to be more moral than concealments and truth. Furthermore, fabrications
were evaluated to be more acceptable than concealments. These results suggest that people generally
perceive prosocial fabrications, albeit deception, to be favorable for interpersonal relationships.
https://ror.org/04chrp450 
