Involvement Modulates the Effects of Deception on Memory in Daily Life

Li, Yan; Liu, Zhiwei

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.756297

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“…Second, in previous studies, participants were presented with crime videos, but they were not at the crime scene and had little involvement in the incident. It has been suggested that the degree of involvement could modulate the memory undermining effect ( Li and Liu, 2021 ). Participants in high involvement conditions showed more memory disruptions and created more non-believed memories than those in low involvement conditions, and the DIF effect was found in the high but not in the low involvement conditions ( Li and Liu, 2021 ).…”

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More Lies Lead to More Memory Impairments in Daily Life

Liu

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Previous studies have demonstrated that lying can undermine memory and that its memory-undermining effects could be modulated by the cognitive resources required to tell lies. We extended the investigation of the memory-undermining effect by using a daily life setting in which participants were highly involved in a mock shopping task. Participants were randomly assigned to truth-telling, denying or mixed lying conditions. After finishing the shopping task, participants were told that two people wanted to know about their shopping lists and would ask them some questions in an interview. During the interview, participants were asked whether each of ten items were on the shopping list, five of which were randomly selected from the shopping list, while the other five were not sold in the store. In answering the interview questions, the truth-telling group was asked to respond honestly, the denying group was asked to give denial responses, and the mixed lying group was asked to respond deceptively. Thus, the denying group told five lies and the mixed lying group told ten lies in the interview. The item memory test, source memory test and destination memory test were given in an orderly manner 48 h after the interview. We found that the mixed lying group, rather than the denying group, forgot the lies they told in the interview and mistakenly believed they had lied about something that they had not lied about. Moreover, the mixed lying group retained fewer memories about the person they responded to than the honest group. In addition, participants in the mixed lying group had more non-believed memories than those in the truth-telling group in both item and source memory tests. We conclude that more lies could result in more memory disruptions in daily life.

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More Lies Lead to More Memory Impairments in Daily Life

Liu

2022

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“…All the findings observed in these studies were statistically significant and, specifically, demonstrated that overall lying on an event leads to a detrimental effect on memory. Finally, when we looked at the limitations stated by the authors in their papers, almost all the scholars indicated as a principal issue the impossibility to completely generalize the findings in real situations due to several reasons ( Pezdek et al, 2007 ; Vieira and Lane, 2013 ; McWilliams et al, 2014 ; Harvey et al, 2017a , b ; Besken, 2018 ; Mangiulli et al, 2018 , 2019a , b ; Otgaar et al, 2018 , 2020 ; Battista et al, 2020 , 2021a ; Riesthuis et al, 2020 ; Li and Liu, 2021 ; Vo et al, 2021 ). In particular, the main reasons reported to explain this issue were (i) the use of a sample of the population (i.e., students) being not necessarily representative of the general population (ii) the stimulus adopted lacking of ecological validity.…”

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“…Scholars have used different paradigms to examine the impact of lying on memory. For example, in studies on false denials (e.g., Vieira and Lane, 2013 ; Otgaar et al, 2016 , 2018 ; Battista et al, 2021a ; Li and Liu, 2021 ) researchers typically ask participants to watch some pictures or a video (i.e., mock crime) and subsequently require them to answer some questions regarding the stimulus (i.e., pictures or video) either without guessing or denying the occurrence of several experienced detail. After an interval, participants’ memory is tested through a source monitoring task and/or cued questions with the instructions to provide an honest response for all questions.…”

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“…In some studies, participants’ memory is tested in terms of memory for the stimulus but also in terms of memory for the interview performed during the first session. Here, the recurrent finding is a memory undermining effect for the interview, termed denial-induced forgetting (DIF; Otgaar et al, 2016 ; but see also Li and Liu, 2021 ). That is, people who denied the occurrence of stimulus-related details are less likely to remember whether they discussed these details during the interview than people who told the truth.…”

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“…Recently, a new line of research is emerging showing that memory can also be contaminated due to the act of lying. This work has shown that memory is differentially affected depending on the type of lie that is executed (e.g., false denial, feigning amnesia, fabricating; e.g., Pickel, 2004 ; Chrobak and Zaragoza, 2008 ; Vieira and Lane, 2013 ; Otgaar et al, 2016 ; Mangiulli et al, 2018 ; Romeo et al, 2019 ; Battista et al, 2020 , 2021b ; Li and Liu, 2021 ).…”

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Research on the Effects of Lying on Memory: A Scientometric Analysis and a Call for New Studies

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Research on the effects of lying and memory is increasingly attracting empirical attention. In the current manuscript, a scientometric analysis was carried out on the mnemonic consequences of lying. This analysis took into account 70 published articles extracted from Scopus and Web of Science databases from 1998 to 2021. A scientometric analysis was conducted in order to visualize the state of the art on this line of research (i.e., authors, countries, institutions, journals, and co-citations). Additionally, a keywords’ cluster analysis was executed to investigate the main keywords used in the published papers. Based on the keywords’ cluster analysis, we identified the main aims and critical issues of the reviewed papers. The United States and the Netherlands are the two most productive countries into the effects of lying on memory. The top five authors are mainly from European countries and wrote from 6 to 15 articles. The cluster analysis detected three clusters of keywords. The critical issues of this line of research are mainly related to the generalizability of the achieved findings for real situations, a lack of a direct control of the manipulation adopted, and a need of additional measures. The current analysis provides a comprehensive overview and understanding of existing research on the effects of lying on memory and provides possible future directions of this research domain.

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The effect of lying on memory in daily life: Does motivation matter?

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Liu

2023

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Recently, there has been renewed interest in the effect of lying on memory. A growing body of studies has documented that lying can impair memories and cause memory disruptions, such as forgetting and false memories, to a greater degree than telling the truth. This study aimed to investigate whether motivation plays a role in the effect of lying on memory. The present study utilized a daily life paradigm and manipulated three conditions: truth telling, internally motivated lying, and externally motivated lying. We asked participants to engage in a shopping task and to tell lies (externally motivated lying group) or to choose between telling the truth (truth‐telling group) and telling lies (internally motivated lying group) in the interview. Forty‐eight hours later, the participants were instructed to truthfully carry out multiple memory assessments. The principal findings of this research are that lying can result in memory impairments, and internally motivated lying can lead to greater impairment in source memory than externally motivated lying. Moreover, no significant differences between the two lying groups were found in the memory tests. The empirical findings of this study provide new insights into the effect of lying on memory.

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Involvement Modulates the Effects of Deception on Memory in Daily Life

Cited by 8 publications

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More Lies Lead to More Memory Impairments in Daily Life

More Lies Lead to More Memory Impairments in Daily Life

Research on the Effects of Lying on Memory: A Scientometric Analysis and a Call for New Studies

The effect of lying on memory in daily life: Does motivation matter?

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