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Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving
Does opportunity make the thief or are people dispositionally prone to deceive? The interaction between personality and the circumstances surrounding deception is crucial to understand what promotes dishonesty in our society. Due to its inherent spontaneity and sociality, deceptive behaviour may be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084863/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21559381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019465 |
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author | Panasiti, Maria Serena Pavone, Enea Francesco Merla, Arcangelo Aglioti, Salvatore Maria |
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description | Does opportunity make the thief or are people dispositionally prone to deceive? The interaction between personality and the circumstances surrounding deception is crucial to understand what promotes dishonesty in our society. Due to its inherent spontaneity and sociality, deceptive behaviour may be hardly reproducible in experimental settings. We developed a novel paradigm in the form of an interactive game where participants can choose whether to lie to another person in situations of loss vs. gain, and of no-reputation-risk vs. reputation-risk linked to the disclosure of their deceptive behaviour to others. Thus, our ecological paradigm allowed subjects to spontaneously decide when to lie and face the challenge of deceiving others. In the case of loss, participants lied to reverse the outcome in their favour. Deception was lower in the reputation-risk condition where personality traits concerning social interactions also played an important role. The results suggest that deception is definitely promoted by unfavourable events, and that maintaining one's own reputation encourages honesty, particularly in socially inclined individuals. |
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spelling | pubmed-30848632011-05-10 Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving Panasiti, Maria Serena Pavone, Enea Francesco Merla, Arcangelo Aglioti, Salvatore Maria PLoS One Research Article Does opportunity make the thief or are people dispositionally prone to deceive? The interaction between personality and the circumstances surrounding deception is crucial to understand what promotes dishonesty in our society. Due to its inherent spontaneity and sociality, deceptive behaviour may be hardly reproducible in experimental settings. We developed a novel paradigm in the form of an interactive game where participants can choose whether to lie to another person in situations of loss vs. gain, and of no-reputation-risk vs. reputation-risk linked to the disclosure of their deceptive behaviour to others. Thus, our ecological paradigm allowed subjects to spontaneously decide when to lie and face the challenge of deceiving others. In the case of loss, participants lied to reverse the outcome in their favour. Deception was lower in the reputation-risk condition where personality traits concerning social interactions also played an important role. The results suggest that deception is definitely promoted by unfavourable events, and that maintaining one's own reputation encourages honesty, particularly in socially inclined individuals. Public Library of Science 2011-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3084863/ /pubmed/21559381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019465 Text en Panasiti et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Panasiti, Maria Serena Pavone, Enea Francesco Merla, Arcangelo Aglioti, Salvatore Maria Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving |
title | Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving |
title_full | Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving |
title_fullStr | Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving |
title_full_unstemmed | Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving |
title_short | Situational and Dispositional Determinants of Intentional Deceiving |
title_sort | situational and dispositional determinants of intentional deceiving |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084863/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21559381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019465 |
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