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Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners.

Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations.

Most people expect friends, relational partners, and even strangers to be truthful most of the time.

If people expected most conversations to be untruthful, talking and communicating with others would require distraction and misdirection to acquire reliable information.

A significant amount of deception occurs between romantic and relational partners.