Tabata Naoya, Vrij Aldert
Department of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Japan.
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 16;13:1075239. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1075239. eCollection 2022.
We examined the relationship between age and self-reported verbal deception strategies in Japanese adults. Japanese participants ( = 153) aged 18 to 73 years took part in this study. We requested the participants to state their age and freely describe how they structure their speech to appear convincing when lying during their daily interactions. We extracted 13 verbal strategies from the participants' open-ended descriptions. Japan is a high-context culture. The results indicated that 11 categories corresponded to the verbal strategies reported in previous studies on lying conducted in low-context cultures. However, two strategies mentioned in the current study, making ambiguous statements and adding irrelevant details to the lie, were not reported in low-context cultures. As expected, age was significantly and negatively correlated with the number of verbal strategies used when lying. Moreover, verbal strategies that seem relatively cognitive demanding were used less as the age of the participants increased. We concluded that these results reflected the age-related decline of cognitive abilities.
我们研究了日本成年人的年龄与自我报告的言语欺骗策略之间的关系。153名年龄在18至73岁之间的日本参与者参与了这项研究。我们要求参与者说出自己的年龄，并自由描述他们在日常互动中说谎时如何组织语言以使自己显得有说服力。我们从参与者的开放式描述中提取了13种言语策略。日本是一个高语境文化。结果表明，有11类与先前在低语境文化中进行的关于说谎的研究中报告的言语策略相对应。然而，本研究中提到的两种策略，即做出模糊陈述和在谎言中添加无关细节，在低语境文化中并未被报告。正如预期的那样，年龄与说谎时使用的言语策略数量呈显著负相关。此外，随着参与者年龄的增长，那些似乎需要较高认知能力的言语策略使用得越来越少。我们得出结论，这些结果反映了与年龄相关的认知能力下降。
