Commentary: Can Ordinary People Detect Deception after All?

Frontiers in Psychology

Chris N. H. Street¹ 

关键词: lie detection;    unconscious;    tipping point;    indirect lie detection;    unconscious lie detection;    unconscious thought theory;    deception detection;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01789

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

No one likes to call someone a liar. But the authors of the tipping point account (ten Brinke et al., 2016) claim that it is evolutionary prudent to spot lies that can harm us in order to determine who to trust. As such, they propose the reputational costs of confronting a liar might be overcome by detecting lies unconsciously. When confronted with information that creates a threat response, the unconscious can use the threat response to detect deceptive cues and to unconsciously infer deception, all the while keeping this information out of the conscious mind. The account suggests this is beneficial because conscious awareness of the deception “could impel the perceiver to confront the liar” (p. 580).

【 授权许可】

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