Questions tagged [deception]
For questions about the psychology of tricking or manipulating others with falsehoods
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Name for the psychological tendency to lying to onself
Does anyone know if there is any research or a name for the psychological tendency to lie to oneself?
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Why is self-deception necessary to better deceive others?
Robert Trivers argues that we deceive ourselves in order to better deceive others, in part because self-deception can reduce unconscious body signals of lying (von Hippel & Trivers, 2011).
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What is the best way to overcome: Why facts don't change our minds? [duplicate]
What is the best way to overcome: Why facts don't change our minds?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
I want to get climate change deniers to seriously ...
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What is the psychological term for reframing that uses false statements?
I want to know if there is an established psychology term for this pattern of behavior:
A person does something, an action
That something becomes known to one or more people, and the action is seen ...
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While spoting a liar, whether observing the verbal cue or observing the non-verbal cue helps?
While spotting a liar,is it paying attention to verbal cues such as
pauses in speech and speech disturbances, including "ahs," stutters, and incomplete sentences that weighs more or
is it paying ...
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Do males or females have a greater fear of deception? [closed]
Question: Do males or females have a greater fear of deception?
The motivation for the question comes from a transgender context: I more frequently see reports of men being afraid of finding ...
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Effectiveness of implicit measures of deception (e.g., sweating, eye focus, EEG) when filling out online questionnaire
I'm working in my master thesis on a method of detecting user deception or lying when answering online questionnaires using his implicit feedback like sweating, eye focus, EEG etc.
I would like if ...
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Can a person "self-induce" the placebo effect?
Despite a recent dubious claim that placebos don't require deception (critiqued here), placebos appear to function on the basis that a subject believes X will have ...
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Are liars inclined to lie to themselves?
Reading the famous quote of Oliver Sacks, can we draw conclusions about liars?
"We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of ...
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Deception and nose touching - does it work for things that are about to be said in prepared speeches?
I'm not sure if nose touching is a scientifically-validated signature of deception or internal conflict. For the purposes of this question I would assume that it's fairly common knowledge in ...
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Do measures of Big 5 personality have a positive bias towards extraverted, conscientious, emotionally stable, ageeable and open individuals?
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One free measures of the Big 5 is the IPIP.
I have noticed that IPIP items seem to have a positive bias towards items loading on the extraversion (EX), emotional stability (ES), ...
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Can the Go/No-Go Association Task be faked?
Go/No-Go Association task:
The GNAT (pronounced like the bug) is a flexible technique designed to
measure implicit social cognition. Conceptually similar to other
implicit measures like the ...
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What do within-subjects studies of job applicant personality test faking say about the covariance between developmental and job applicant scores?
Some studies of faking personality tests in selection and recruitment have used a within-subject design. These studies involve administering a personality test in two conditions. One condition is ...
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Bayesian models of faking in selection and recruitment settings
I'm doing some research looking at applying Bayesian models to faking personality tests in selection and recruitment.
I'm interested to know:
What existing work has applied Bayesian models to faking ...
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How to assess participant awareness of experimental deception without inducing awareness?
I am designing a memory experiment with a deceptive critical trial, wherein an item is swapped without the participant's knowledge.
What is the best way to determine if the participant has noticed ...
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