In Search of Duping Delight

Gunderson, Christopher A.; Vo, Thanh Viet Anh; Harriot, Benjamin; Kam, Chloe; Brinke, Leanne ten

doi:10.1007/s42761-022-00126-5

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“…Primary study and meta‐analytic evidence suggests lies often include more negative emotions than truths, perhaps to reflect an increase in guilt, embarrassment, or psychological distancing during deception (Gino & Shea, 2012; Markowitz & Griffin, 2020; Newman et al, 2003). Lies may also contain more positive emotions than truths to reflect the idea of duping delight , where people experience positive affect before or after telling a lie (Ekman, 2001; Gunderson et al, 2022; ten Brinke & Porter, 2012). Given that emotion and affect are linked to deception in a range of studies, the current work investigates how embeddedness is linked to emotion and affect as well.…”

Section: Deconstructing Deceptionmentioning

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Deconstructing deception: Frequency, communicator characteristics, and linguistic features of embeddedness

Markowitz

2024

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Deceptive and truthful statements draw on a common pool of communication data, and they are typically embedded within false and truthful narratives. How often does embeddedness occur, who communicates embedded deceptions and truths, and what linguistic characteristics reveal embeddedness? In this study, nearly 800 participants deceived or told the truth about their friends and indicated the embedded deceptions (e.g., false statements told within entirely false or truthful messages) and truths (e.g., truthful statements told within entirely false or truthful messages). Embedded deceiving and truth‐telling rates were only statistically different among those who were instructed to tell the truth. Therefore, the distribution of embedded deceptions and truths were similar for false statements, but dissimilar for truthful statements. Embedded truths were also more likely to be written by women (vs men), liberals (vs conservatives), and communicated in a formal versus narrative style. Theoretical implications are discussed.

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Section: Deconstructing Deceptionmentioning

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Deconstructing deception: Frequency, communicator characteristics, and linguistic features of embeddedness

Markowitz

2024

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…Primary study and meta-analytic evidence suggests lies often include more negative emotions than truths, perhaps to reflect an increase in guilt, embarrassment, or psychological distancing during deception (Gino & Shea, 2012;Markowitz & Griffin, 2020;Newman et al, 2003). Lies may also contain more positive emotions than truths to reflect the idea of duping delight, where people experience positive affect before or after telling a lie (Ekman, 2001;Gunderson et al, 2022;ten Brinke & Porter, 2012). Given that emotion and affect are linked to deception in a range of studies, the current work investigates how embeddedness is linked to emotion and affect as well.…”

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Deconstructing Deception: Frequency, Communicator Characteristics, and Linguistic Features of Embeddedness

Markowitz

2023

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An inaccurate dichotomy often exists in deception research where scholars assume bald-faced lies are entirely false and bald-faced truths are entirely truthful. A more accurate description suggests lies and truths draw on a common pool of information, and they are typically embedded within false and truthful narratives. How often does embeddedness occur, who communicates embedded lies and truths, and what linguistic characteristics reveal embeddedness? In this study, nearly 800 participants lied or told the truth about their friends and indicated the embedded lies and truths within their texts (total N = 11,551). Embedded lying and truth-telling rates were not statistically different among those who were instructed to lie, but they were statistically different among those who were instructed to tell the truth. Embedded truths were also more likely to be written by women (versus men), liberals (versus conservatives), and communicated in a formal versus narrative style. Theoretical implications are discussed.

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“…Although Study 1 provided results consistent with our hypotheses, effect sizes were small ( Cohen, 1988 ). It has previously been argued that laboratory-created stimuli may not include robust cues to deception and therefore may not provide observers with strong or reliable signals to guide their emotional and behavioral reactions (e.g., Gunderson & ten Brinke, 2019 ; von Hippel & Trivers, 2011 ). Moreover, Study 1 stimuli were posed expressions and greater ecological validity would come from a study of spontaneous (genuine and deceptive) expressions.…”

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Interpersonal Consequences of Deceptive Expressions of Sadness

Gunderson

Baker

Pence

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Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Emotional expressions evoke predictable responses from observers; displays of sadness are commonly met with sympathy and help from others. Accordingly, people may be motivated to feign emotions to elicit a desired response. In the absence of suspicion, we predicted that emotional and behavioral responses to genuine (vs. deceptive) expressers would be guided by empirically valid cues of sadness authenticity. Consistent with this hypothesis, untrained observers (total N = 1,300) reported less sympathy and offered less help to deceptive (vs. genuine) expressers of sadness. This effect was replicated using both posed, low-stakes, laboratory-created stimuli, and spontaneous, real, high-stakes emotional appeals to the public. Furthermore, lens models suggest that sympathy reactions were guided by difficult-to-fake facial actions associated with sadness. Results suggest that naive observers use empirically valid cues to deception to coordinate social interactions, providing novel evidence that people are sensitive to subtle cues to deception.

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In Search of Duping Delight

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Deconstructing deception: Frequency, communicator characteristics, and linguistic features of embeddedness

Deconstructing deception: Frequency, communicator characteristics, and linguistic features of embeddedness

Deconstructing Deception: Frequency, Communicator Characteristics, and Linguistic Features of Embeddedness

Interpersonal Consequences of Deceptive Expressions of Sadness

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