The ease of lying

被引:81
作者
Verschuere, Bruno [1 ,2 ]
Spruyt, Adriaan [1 ]
Meijer, Ewout H. [2 ]
Otgaar, Henry [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ghent, Dept Psychol, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[2] Maastricht Univ, Fac Psychol & Neurosci, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands
关键词
Deception; Response inhibition; Intentionality; DECEPTION; GUILT; TRUTH;
D O I
10.1016/j.concog.2010.10.023
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Brain imaging studies suggest that truth telling constitutes the default of the human brain and that lying involves intentional suppression of the predominant truth response. By manipulating the truth proportion in the Sheffield lie test, we investigated whether the dominance of the truth response is malleable. Results showed that frequent truth telling made lying more difficult, and that frequent lying made lying easier. These results implicate that (1) the accuracy of lie detection tests may be improved by increasing the dominance of the truth response and that (2) habitual lying makes the lie response more dominant. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:908 / 911
页数:4
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