Lying Behavior and Evaluation of Lies
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (2) , 575-581
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.2.575
Abstract
Five studies investigated lying and evaluation of lies. Study 1 concerned questionnaire data which indicated that educational background, personal morality, and religiousness are related to the evaluation of lies. In Study 2, ratings of reprehensibility of lies were related to the sex, friendship, status, and occupation of the liar, and the presumed effect of the lie on the listener. Study 3 indicated that a polygraph (GSR) could not consistently differentiate persons who were acting a dishonest role from persons acting an honest role. The fourth study investigated the ability of subjects to detect lying while listening to tape recordings of honest/dishonest role-players. Their accuracy was then compared to the accuracy of the polygraph on the same role-players. Study 5 found that subjects, as a group, made a more suspicious judgment of a role-player than they did as individual judges.Keywords
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