Uninstructed BIAT faking when ego depleted or in normal state: differential effect on brain and behavior
- 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 indicatesBackground: 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.…
Verfasserangaben: | Wanja Wolff, Sebastian Schindler, Christoph Englert, Ralf BrandORCiDGND, Johanna Kissler |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-016-0249-8 |
ISSN: | 1471-2202 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27142046 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | BMC neuroscience |
Verlag: | BioMed Central |
Verlagsort: | London |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2016 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 22.03.2020 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Cognitive control; Deception; EEG/ERP; Ego depletion; Faking; Implicit association test (IAT) |
Band: | 17 |
Seitenanzahl: | 12 |
Fördernde Institution: | Bielefeld University [EXC 277]; German Research Foundation (DFG); German Federal Institute of Sport Science [IIA1-070302/12-13]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Open Access Publication Funds of Bielefeld University |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |