Polage Danielle
Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, USA.
Eur J Psychol. 2017 Nov 30;13(4):633-644. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i4.1422. eCollection 2017 Nov.
The current study looks at the effect of telling lies, in contrast to simply planning lies, on participants' belief in the truth. Participants planned and told a lie, planned to tell a lie but didn't tell it, told an unplanned lie, or neither planned nor told a lie (control) about events that did not actually happen to them. Participants attempted to convince researchers that all of the stories told were true. Results show that telling a lie plays a more important role in inflating belief scores than simply preparing the script of a lie. Cognitive dissonance may lead to motivated forgetting of information that does not align with the lie. This research suggests that telling lies may lead to confusion as to the veracity of the lie leading to inflated belief scores.
当前研究考察了说谎（与仅仅编造谎言相对）对参与者对真相的信念的影响。参与者针对实际上并未发生在他们身上的事件编造并说出了一个谎言、计划说谎但未说出口、说出了一个未事先编造的谎言，或者既未编造也未说出谎言（对照组）。参与者试图让研究人员相信他们讲述的所有故事都是真实的。结果表明，说谎在提高信念得分方面比仅仅准备一个谎言的脚本发挥着更重要的作用。认知失调可能会导致有动机地遗忘与谎言不符的信息。这项研究表明，说谎可能会导致对谎言真实性的混淆，从而提高信念得分。
