College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2019 Apr 29;14(4):e0216238. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216238. eCollection 2019.
Besides endangering human health, air pollution has profound effects on individuals' cognition, emotions, and behavior. Previous studies have found that air pollution could increase self-oriented lies. We summarized two explanations for this phenomenon: (1) air pollution makes people less likely to regard lies as unethical, and (2) air pollution makes people more likely to approach materials rewards. The present study mainly measured three kinds of lies-self-convenience, other-convenience, and other-material lies-to investigate these two explanations. Participants were asked to imagine living in either a polluted or a clean situation in two online studies and one laboratory study. The results showed that air pollution did not influence self-convenience lies (Studies 1 and 2), and clean air increased both other-convenience and other-material lies (Studies 2 and 3). According to these results, both explanations are supported. The theoretical implications of the present study are discussed.
除了危害人类健康，空气污染还会对个人的认知、情绪和行为产生深远影响。先前的研究发现，空气污染可能会增加自我导向的谎言。我们总结了这种现象的两种解释：（1）空气污染使人更不容易将谎言视为不道德的行为，（2）空气污染使人更倾向于追求物质奖励。本研究主要测量了三种谎言——自我便利谎言、他人便利谎言和他人物质谎言，以探究这两种解释。在两项在线研究和一项实验室研究中，参与者被要求想象生活在污染或清洁的环境中。结果表明，空气污染不会影响自我便利谎言（研究 1 和 2），而清洁空气会增加他人便利和他人物质谎言（研究 2 和 3）。根据这些结果，这两种解释都得到了支持。本研究的理论意义将进行讨论。
