The ease of lying

B. Verschuere; A. Spruyt; E.H. Meijer; H. Otgaar

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2010.10.023

The ease of lying

B. Verschuere^*, A. Spruyt, E.H. Meijer, H. Otgaar

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	908-911
Number of pages	4
Journal	Consciousness and Cognition
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.10.023
Publication status	Published - Sept 2011

Keywords

Deception
Response inhibition
Intentionality
DECEPTION
GUILT
TRUTH

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