摘要：Abstract In two studies, participants responded to a scenario in which they were asked to imagine they had revealed private information shared with a close friend or a recent acquaintance to a third party, thereby violating a privacy boundary, and were then confronted by the friend or acquaintance. Also manipulated was the degree of privacy of the information involved. The combined results suggest, among other things, that clarity, whether in the form of truth-telling or falsification, was a preferred strategy in situations involving information of a more private nature and that privacy level and relationship type influenced truth-telling. The strategies of falsification and equivocation were found to be significantly related to these independent variables. Communication competence and ambiguity tolerance were also implicated in strategy selection.
