Kolesnyk Dasha, de Jong Martijn G, Pieters Rik
Department of Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Department of Marketing, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University.
Psychol Sci. 2021 Dec;32(12):1952-1964. doi: 10.1177/09567976211016395. Epub 2021 Nov 15.
Deceptive self-presentation on social-media platforms appears to be common. However, its prevalence and determinants are still largely unknown, partly because admitting such behavior is socially sensitive and hard to study. We investigated deceptive self-presentation from the perspective of mating theories in two key domains: physical attractiveness and personal achievement. A truth-telling technique was used to measure deceptive self-presentation in a survey of 12,257 adults (51% female) across 25 countries. As hypothesized, men and women reported more deceptive self-presentation in the domain traditionally most relevant for their gender in a mating context. However, contrary to lay beliefs ( = 790), results showed larger gender differences in deceptive self-presentation in countries with higher gender equality because there is less gender-atypical (relative to gender-typical) deceptive self-presentation in these countries. Higher gender equality was also associated with less deceptive self-presentation for men and women worldwide.
在社交媒体平台上进行欺骗性的自我展示似乎很常见。然而，其普遍程度和决定因素在很大程度上仍然未知，部分原因是承认这种行为在社会上较为敏感且难以研究。我们从交配理论的角度，在两个关键领域对欺骗性自我展示进行了调查：身体吸引力和个人成就。在一项对来自25个国家的12257名成年人（51%为女性）的调查中，我们使用了一种如实陈述的技术来测量欺骗性自我展示。正如所假设的那样，男性和女性在交配背景下，在传统上与他们性别最相关的领域中报告了更多的欺骗性自我展示。然而，与一般观念（n = 790）相反，结果显示，在性别平等程度较高的国家，欺骗性自我展示中的性别差异更大，因为在这些国家，性别非典型（相对于性别典型）的欺骗性自我展示较少。全球范围内，较高的性别平等也与男性和女性较少的欺骗性自我展示相关。
