A massive experiment on choice blindness in political decisions: Confidence, confabulation, and unconscious detection of self-deception | Zendy

A. A. Rieznik | Zendy; Lorena Moscovich | Zendy; Alan Frieiro | Zendy; Julieta Figini | Zendy; Rodrigo Catalano | Zendy; Juan Manuel Garrido | Zendy; Facundo Álvarez Heduan | Zendy; Mariano Sigman | Zendy; Pablo González | Zendy

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A massive experiment on choice blindness in political decisions: Confidence, confabulation, and unconscious detection of self-deception

Author(s) -

A. A. Rieznik,

Lorena Moscovich,

Alan Frieiro,

Julieta Figini,

Rodrigo Catalano,

Juan Manuel Garrido,

Facundo Álvarez Heduan,

Mariano Sigman,

Pablo González

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

plos one

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99

H-Index - 332

ISSN - 1932-6203

DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0171108

Subject(s) - introspection , deception , unconscious mind , psychology , categorical variable , cognitive psychology , social psychology , voting , politics , blindness , computer science , medicine , psychoanalysis , political science , machine learning , optometry , law

We implemented a Choice Blindness Paradigm containing political statements in Argentina to reveal the existence of categorical ranges of introspective reports, identified by confidence and agreement levels, separating easy from very hard to manipulate decisions. CBP was implemented in both live and web-based forms. Importantly, and contrary to what was observed in Sweden, we did not observe changes in voting intentions. Also, confidence levels in the manipulated replies where significantly lower than in non-manipulated cases even in undetected manipulations. We name this phenomenon unconscious detection of self-deception. Results also show that females are more difficult to manipulate than men.

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