Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2020 Nov;73(11):1774-1783. doi: 10.1177/1747021820924652. Epub 2020 Jun 13.
We investigated automatic retrieval of the knowledge of having lied or having told the truth to a question, depending on (a) the quality of the statement (true vs. false response) and (b) the overall proportion of (dis-)honest responses. We therefore manipulated the proportion of lies and truths being told in an oral interview. Automatic retrieval of this meta-knowledge was assessed with a categorisation task, where the probe words and had to be classified, while questions from the interview served as task-irrelevant prime stimuli. Results revealed an automatic retrieval of knowledge about having lied to a question only for participants who had told few lies in the interview, but not for those who had told many lies. No retrieval effects were obtained regarding questions that had been answered truthfully. These findings suggest a combined influence of quality and quantity of dishonest statements on automatic memory retrieval, thereby being in accordance with recent accounts of action control.
我们研究了根据（a）陈述的质量（真实与虚假响应）和（b）不诚实回答的总体比例，自动检索撒谎或对问题说实话的知识。因此，我们在口头访谈中操纵了说谎和说实话的比例。通过分类任务评估这种元知识的自动检索，其中探针词 和 必须进行分类，而访谈中的问题则作为任务无关的启动刺激。结果表明，只有在访谈中说谎较少的参与者才会自动检索到对某个问题撒谎的知识，而在访谈中说谎较多的参与者则不会。对于真实回答的问题，则没有检索到效果。这些发现表明，不诚实陈述的质量和数量对自动记忆检索有综合影响，从而与最近的行动控制理论相一致。
