Department of Psychology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
Center for Research on Social Relations, Institute of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
PLoS One. 2022 Jun 9;17(6):e0269121. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269121. eCollection 2022.
Social power undermines focus on others and increases reliance on stereotype-consistent information. Thus, power may enhance focus on stereotypical cues to deception, thereby decreasing lie detection accuracy. In three studies, we tested whether having power affects lie detection accuracy. Participants (overall N = 502) were asked to identify truthful and lying candidates (N = 12) during mock job interviews. Study 1 was a field experiment involving employees who held managerial and non-managerial positions (N = 88). In the following laboratory experiments, we manipulated power and asked participants to imagine themselves as managers (Study 2, N = 214) or provided them with control over resources and the ability to reward others (Study 3, N = 200). In Studies 2 and 3, we additionally manipulated the method of lie detection (direct vs. indirect). In contrast to the original hypotheses, we found that power led to increased veracity assessment accuracy. Having power over others enhances the accuracy of one's veracity assessment, although this increase is small and limited to lie detection (Study 1) or direct judgments (Studies 2 & 3). Together, power affects the processing of social information and what aspects of this information are taken into account.
社会权力会削弱对他人的关注，并增加对刻板印象一致信息的依赖。因此，权力可能会增强对欺骗的刻板印象线索的关注，从而降低谎言检测的准确性。在三项研究中，我们测试了权力是否会影响谎言检测的准确性。参与者（总体 N=502）在模拟面试中被要求识别真实和说谎的候选人（N=12）。研究 1 是一项现场实验，涉及具有管理和非管理职位的员工（N=88）。在以下实验室实验中，我们操纵了权力，并要求参与者想象自己是经理（研究 2，N=214），或为他们提供控制资源和奖励他人的能力（研究 3，N=200）。在研究 2 和 3 中，我们还操纵了谎言检测的方法（直接与间接）。与最初的假设相反，我们发现权力导致了真实性评估准确性的提高。对他人的权力增强了对自己真实性评估的准确性，尽管这种增加很小，并且仅限于谎言检测（研究 1）或直接判断（研究 2 和 3）。总之，权力会影响对社会信息的处理方式，以及会考虑到哪些信息。
