TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wolff, Wanja
A1  - Schindler, Sebastian
A1  - Englert, Christoph
A1  - Brand, Ralf
A1  - Kissler, Johanna
T1  - Uninstructed BIAT faking when ego depleted or in normal state: differential effect on brain and behavior
JF  - BMC neuroscience
N2  - Background: Deception can distort psychological tests on socially sensitive topics. Understanding the cerebral processes that are involved in such faking can be useful in detection and prevention of deception. Previous research shows that faking a brief implicit association test (BIAT) evokes a characteristic ERP response. It is not yet known whether temporarily available self-control resources moderate this response. We randomly assigned 22 participants (15 females, 24.23 +/- 2.91 years old) to a counterbalanced repeated-measurements design. Participants first completed a Brief-IAT (BIAT) on doping attitudes as a baseline measure and were then instructed to fake a negative doping attitude both when self-control resources were depleted and non-depleted. Cerebral activity during BIAT performance was assessed using high-density EEG. Conclusions: Results indicate that temporarily available self-control resources do not affect overt faking success on a BIAT. However, differences were found on an electrophysiological level. This indicates that while on a phenotypical level self-control resources play a negligible role in deliberate test faking the underlying cerebral processes are markedly different.
KW  - EEG/ERP
KW  - Implicit association test (IAT)
KW  - Faking
KW  - Deception
KW  - Ego depletion
KW  - Cognitive control
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-016-0249-8
SN  - 1471-2202
VL  - 17
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -