The Electrocortical Signature of Successful and Unsuccessful Deception in a Face-to-Face Social Interaction.

ABSTRACT: Deceptive behavior, and the evaluation of others' behavior as truthful or deceptive, are crucial aspects of human social interaction. We report a study investigating two participants in a social interaction, performing a deception task. The first participant, the "informant," made true or false autobiographical statements. The second participant, the "detective," then classified these statements as truth or lie. Behavioral data showed that detectives performed slightly above chance and were better at correctly identifying true as compared with deceptive statements. This presumably reflects the "truth bias": the finding that individuals are more likely to classify others' statements as truthful than as deceptive - even when informed that a lie is as likely to be told as the truth. Electroen

SUBMITTER: Wagner-Altendorf TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379373 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature