Interoceptive Accuracy Enhances Deception Detection in Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Difficulties with deception detection may leave older adults especially vulnerable to fraud. Interoception, that is, the awareness of one's bodily signals, has been shown to influence deception detection, but this relationship has not been examined in aging yet. The present study investigated effects of interoceptive accuracy on 2 forms of deception detection: detecting interpersonal lies in videos and identifying text-based deception in phishing emails.

Methods

Younger (18-34 years) and older (53-82 years) adults completed a heartbeat detection task to determine interoceptive accuracy. Deception detection was assessed across 2 distinct, ecologically valid tasks: (i) a lie detection task in which participants made veracity judgments of genuine and deceptive indivi

SUBMITTER: Heemskerk A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500658 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature