description
The majority of the scientific literature that explores deception examines how people differ behaviourally or cognitively depending on whether they are lying or telling the truth. Less attention has been paid to how the receivers of a lie process and respond to truthful versus honest narratives. This research project explores how people evaluate short narratives dependant upon whether the narratives provided are true or not, but also depending on whether they lies about positive, negative or neutral stimuli that the le tellers have been exposed to.
Research questions
Do people perceive narratives and people differently depending upon whether they lie, or tell the truth, and does the valence of the topic of the lie have any relevance for these perceptions?
Research method
Online or in person experiments.
Data-analysis
The data of this study will be analyzed by quantitative data analysis programs such as SPSS or R.
INFORMATION
Please contact Lynn Weiher (l.weiher@utwente.nl) when you are interested in this assignment. The assignment is open to one student.
Literature
Reinhard, M. A., Greifeneder, R., & Scharmach, M. (2013). Attitudes and social cognition: Unconscious processes improve lie detection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105(5), 721–739. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034352
Hartwig, M., & Bond, C. F. (2011). Why do lie-catchers fail? A lens model meta-analysis of human lie judgments. Psychological Bulletin, 137(4), 643–659. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023589