The effect of telling lies on belief in the truth
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Polage, Danielle
Abstract / Description
The current study looks at the effect of telling lies, in contrast to simply planning lies, on participants’ belief in the truth. Participants planned and told a lie, planned to tell a lie but didn’t tell it, told an unplanned lie, or neither planned nor told a lie (control) about events that did not actually happen to them. Participants attempted to convince researchers that all of the stories told were true. Results show that telling a lie plays a more important role in inflating belief scores than simply preparing the script of a lie. Cognitive dissonance may lead to motivated forgetting of information that does not align with the lie. This research suggests that telling lies may lead to confusion as to the veracity of the lie leading to inflated belief scores.
Keyword(s)
lying lies inflation memory deceptionPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2017-11-30
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
13
Issue
4
Page numbers
633–644
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Polage, D. (2017). The effect of telling lies on belief in the truth. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(4), 633–644. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1422
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Polage, Danielle
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Date of first publication2017-11-30
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Abstract / DescriptionThe current study looks at the effect of telling lies, in contrast to simply planning lies, on participants’ belief in the truth. Participants planned and told a lie, planned to tell a lie but didn’t tell it, told an unplanned lie, or neither planned nor told a lie (control) about events that did not actually happen to them. Participants attempted to convince researchers that all of the stories told were true. Results show that telling a lie plays a more important role in inflating belief scores than simply preparing the script of a lie. Cognitive dissonance may lead to motivated forgetting of information that does not align with the lie. This research suggests that telling lies may lead to confusion as to the veracity of the lie leading to inflated belief scores.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationPolage, D. (2017). The effect of telling lies on belief in the truth. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 13(4), 633–644. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1422
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1080
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1272
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1422
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Keyword(s)lyingen_US
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Keyword(s)liesen_US
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Keyword(s)inflationen_US
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Keyword(s)memoryen_US
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Keyword(s)deceptionen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleThe effect of telling lies on belief in the truthen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue4
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers633–644
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Volume13
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record