Kaya Samet, Besken Miri, Bal Ceren, Berjin İke Selin
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Bilkent University, Çankaya, Turkey.
Memory. 2023 Apr;31(4):545-559. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2178660. Epub 2023 Feb 16.
Research shows that people lie on online dating sites often but might fail to remember this information subsequently. This study investigated participants' predicted and actual memory performance for personal semantic information after telling the truth versus a lie in two experiments in a setup similar to online dating sites. In Experiment 1, participants responded to open-ended questions either truthfully or fabricated lies in a within-subjects design, followed by predictions for remembering their responses. Subsequently, they recalled their responses through free-recall. Using the same design, Experiment 2 also manipulated the type of retrieval task by using a free- or cued-recall test. The results showed that participants consistently had higher memory predictions for truthful than deceptive responses. However, the actual memory performance did not always produce similar results to their predictions. The results suggest that the difficulties during lie fabrication, measured through response latencies, partially mediated the relationship between lying and memory predictions. The study has important applied implications for lying about personal semantic information in online dating contexts.
研究表明，人们常在在线约会网站上说谎，但随后可能会忘记这些信息。本研究在类似于在线约会网站的设置下，通过两个实验调查了参与者在说出真话与谎言后，对个人语义信息的预测记忆表现和实际记忆表现。在实验1中，参与者在被试内设计中如实回答开放式问题或编造谎言，随后预测自己对回答的记忆情况。之后，他们通过自由回忆来回忆自己的回答。实验2采用相同的设计，还通过自由回忆或线索回忆测试来操纵检索任务的类型。结果表明，参与者对真实回答的记忆预测始终高于欺骗性回答。然而，实际记忆表现并不总是与他们的预测结果相似。结果表明，通过反应潜伏期衡量的说谎过程中的困难，部分介导了说谎与记忆预测之间的关系。该研究对于在线约会情境中个人语义信息的说谎行为具有重要的应用意义。
