A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception

Deception has been demonstrated as a task that involves executive control such as conflict monitoring and response inhibition. In the present study, we investigated whether or not the controlled processes associated with deception could be trained to be more efficient. Forty-eight participants finis...

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Main Authors:	Hu, Xiaoqing, Chen, Hao, Fu, Genyue
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495335/

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spelling	pubmed-34953352012-11-16 A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception Hu, Xiaoqing Chen, Hao Fu, Genyue Psychology Deception has been demonstrated as a task that involves executive control such as conflict monitoring and response inhibition. In the present study, we investigated whether or not the controlled processes associated with deception could be trained to be more efficient. Forty-eight participants finished a reaction time-based differentiation of deception paradigm (DDP) task using self- and other-referential information on two occasions. After the first baseline DDP task, participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a control group in which participants finished the same task for a second time; an instruction group in which participants were instructed to speed up their deceptive responses in the second DDP; a training group in which participants received training in speeding up their deceptive responses, and then proceeded to the second DDP. Results showed that instruction alone significantly reduced the RTs associated with participants’ deceptive responses. However, the differences between deceptive and truthful responses were erased only in the training group. The result suggests that the performance associated with deception is malleable and could be voluntarily controlled with intention or training. Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3495335/ /pubmed/23162520 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00488 Text en Copyright © 2012 Hu, Chen and Fu. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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author	Hu, Xiaoqing Chen, Hao Fu, Genyue
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title	A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception
title_short	A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception
title_full	A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception
title_fullStr	A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception
title_full_unstemmed	A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception
title_sort	repeated lie becomes a truth? the effect of intentional control and training on deception
description	Deception has been demonstrated as a task that involves executive control such as conflict monitoring and response inhibition. In the present study, we investigated whether or not the controlled processes associated with deception could be trained to be more efficient. Forty-eight participants finished a reaction time-based differentiation of deception paradigm (DDP) task using self- and other-referential information on two occasions. After the first baseline DDP task, participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a control group in which participants finished the same task for a second time; an instruction group in which participants were instructed to speed up their deceptive responses in the second DDP; a training group in which participants received training in speeding up their deceptive responses, and then proceeded to the second DDP. Results showed that instruction alone significantly reduced the RTs associated with participants’ deceptive responses. However, the differences between deceptive and truthful responses were erased only in the training group. The result suggests that the performance associated with deception is malleable and could be voluntarily controlled with intention or training.
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A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception

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