Stop in the name of lies: The cost of blocking the truth to deceive

Autor: Grégoire Borst, Ania Aïte, Olivier Houdé
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de psychologie du développement et de l'éducation de l'enfant (LaPsyDÉ - UMR 8240), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Consciousness and Cognition
Consciousness and Cognition, Elsevier, 2018, 65, pp.141-151. ⟨10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.015⟩
ISSN: 1053-8100
1090-2376
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.07.015⟩
Popis: International audience; Most researchers assume that deception involves a conflict between a predominant truth response and a deliberate deceptive response. Such a view is consistent with dual process theories that state that high-order cognition operates through fast-automatic processes that may conflict with slow-deliberate ones. In the present study, we tested whether one must inhibit the truth to deceive in light of inconsistent findings in the literature. One hundred and eighty-nine participants were tested across two Negative Priming paradigms that rest on the logic that the activation of a fast-automatic process will be hampered on a given display if it is inhibited on the previous display. Our findings suggest that truthful responses are predominant in healthy adults, which is why inhibitory control is required to activate a deliberate deceptive mode. We argue that the findings from deception studies could be best accounted for by dual process theories.
Databáze: OpenAIRE