Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Psychol Aging. 2012 Sep;27(3):543-9. doi: 10.1037/a0023380. Epub 2011 Apr 4.
Young and older participants judged the veracity of young and older speakers' opinions about topical issues. All participants found it easier to judge when an older adult was lying relative to a young adult, and older adults were worse than young adults at telling when speakers were telling the truth versus lying. Neither young nor older adults were advantaged when judging a speaker from the same age group. Overall, older adults were more transparent as liars and were worse at detecting lies, with older adults' worse emotion recognition fully mediating the relation between age group and lie detection failures.
年轻和年长的参与者判断年轻和年长的说话者对热门话题的意见的真实性。所有参与者都发现，相对于年轻人，判断老年人是否在说谎更容易，而且老年人在判断说话者是说实话还是说谎时比年轻人差。无论是年轻人还是老年人，在判断来自同一年龄组的说话者时都没有优势。总的来说，老年人作为说谎者更透明，并且更难察觉谎言，老年人更差的情绪识别完全中介了年龄组和谎言检测失败之间的关系。
