While Buller and Burgoon (1998) make a great attempt at breaking down the components of how deception manifests through interpersonal communication, there is little information on what are the MAIN causative factors for deception, or where the human need to deceive find its motivational source.

It has been explained through the theory that it is our primitive instinct of self-preservation what often MOTIVATES us to conceal, embellish, exaggerate, or plain change information altogether. However, all this is explained under an interpersonal PERSPECTIVE. 

When you explain a mode of communication from merely the interpersonal perspective, you merely focus on a specific scenario, where two people must EXCHANGE information and "read" each other's non-verbal communication.

While Buller and Burgoon (1998) make a great attempt at breaking down the components of how deception manifests through interpersonal communication, there is little information on what are the main causative factors for deception, or where the human need to deceive find its motivational source.

It has been explained through the theory that it is our primitive instinct of self-preservation what often motivates us to conceal, embellish, exaggerate, or plain change information altogether. However, all this is explained under an interpersonal perspective. 

When you explain a mode of communication from merely the interpersonal perspective, you merely focus on a specific scenario, where two people must exchange information and "read" each other's non-verbal communication.