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Cooperation of liars and truth tellers
Author(s) -
Vrij Aldert
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.1050
Subject(s) - lying , psychology , truth telling , deception , social psychology , event (particle physics) , consciousness , personality , psychoanalysis , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , radiology
Inbau, Reid, Buckley, and Jayne (2001) claim that liars are less cooperative than truth tellers, and that their denials sound less convincing. We have tested these claims in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants lied or told the truth about an event they were involved in, and were subsequently accused of lying. Cooperation was measured as the willingness to repeat their description of what had happened during the event. Cooperation was not related to lying/truth telling but was correlated with the personality of the interviewee. The higher participants scored in terms of public self‐consciousness, the less willing they were to cooperate. In Experiment 2, observers were exposed to the justifications the participants in Experiment 1 (both liars and truth tellers) gave for their refusal to repeat their stories. Amongst other points, results showed that the refusals of liars sounded more convincing than the refusals of truth tellers. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.