What does cheating mean?

Emotional deception means that people hide their facial expressions, language mood expressions and body posture expressions, or people express their opposite emotional characteristics and changes to others through facial expressions, language mood expressions and body posture expressions.

There are many ways to conceal and deceive emotions, which can be summarized as follows:

Hide one's true intentions

If opponents or competitors clearly understand their true intentions, they will take corresponding measures to stop them. Therefore, concealing your true intentions can greatly reduce resistance and achieve a surprise victory. Some people either "play deep" or "pretend to be mysterious" in social occasions, which makes people unable to understand their true intentions or show the opposite intentions.

Hide one's true abilities

Pretend to be confident when you don't have some abilities; When you have a certain ability, you pretend that you are helpless. Concealing one's true abilities will make it impossible for opponents or competitors to compete effectively. They are either intimidated by their false abilities or knocked down because they despise their abilities.

Establish a false moral image

The higher the value level, the more lasting, extensive and profound the effect, and the higher the enjoyment of the effect. Whoever has more high-level value will have more benefits with others, so it is easy to get more help and support from others. If people adopt some false forms and deliberately establish a kind, upright, honest and noble moral image, they may get more respect and love, and get more help and support. Because of this, people always hide their feelings for low-level values and exaggerate their feelings for high-level values. For example, some businessmen always hide their fascination with money and exaggerate their treasure of friendship.

Show a hypocritical emotional gesture

If people take some false emotional gestures, deliberately show modesty, comity, respect, sympathy and care for others, or show pity and pain, it will easily be regarded as recognition and maintenance of others' power, ability, status and honor, and will cheat others of some value returns to some extent.

Moral judgment of emotional deception

In essence, emotional concealment and deception serve people's interests. Under what conditions and in what way, the concealment and deception of emotions mainly depends on people's interests. People with different interests will form different evaluation conclusions about the same emotional concealer and deceiver: those who are good at this will be considered smart and capable by the beneficiaries and cunning by the victims; People who ignore this point will be regarded as honest and honest by the beneficiaries and stupid and inflexible by the victims. Judging whether an emotional cover-up and deception is good or evil cannot be carried out from the perspective of epistemology, that is, not from the perspective of logic, concepts, thinking or traditional concepts, but from the perspective of axiology, that is, from the perspective of value effect, whether it harms the overall interests, long-term interests and the interests of the vast majority of people.