Neural correlates of self-deception and impression-management

Farrow, Tom F.D.; Burgess, Jenny C.L.; Wilkinson, Iain D.; Hunter, Michael D.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.016

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“…Another possibility is that rTPJ is not involved in self-deception processing. Recently, researchers investigated the neural correlates of self-deception and impression management with the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) scale through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique ( Farrow et al, 2015 ; Paulhus, unpublished). They found that impression management is correlated with activity in the left TPJ, whereas self-deception is not correlated with activity in bilateral TPJ.…”

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“…They found that impression management is correlated with activity in the left TPJ, whereas self-deception is not correlated with activity in bilateral TPJ. As the authors noted, the reason why the fMRI study did not find the relationship between impression management and rTPJ might be they did not directly measure participants’ hypocritical behaviors based on impression management and self-deception ( Farrow et al, 2015 ). In line with this study, we found that the rTPJ is engaged in processing one’s public image but not in promoting self-concept.…”

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Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness

Tang

Wang

et al. 2017

Front. Psychol.

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Self-centered and other-regarding concerns play important roles in decisions of deception. To investigate how these two motivations affect deception in fairness related moral hypocrisy, we modulated the brain activity in the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), the key region for decision making involved in self-centered and other-regarding concerns. After receiving brain stimulation with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), participants finished a modified dictator game. In the game, they played as proposers to make allocations between themselves and recipients and had a chance to deceive by misreporting their totals for allocations. Results show that deception in moral hypocrisy was decreased after anodal stimulation than sham and cathodal stimulation, only when participants know that their reported totals (appearing fair) would be revealed to recipients rather than being unrevealed. Anodal stimulation also increased offers to recipients than cathodal stimulation regardless of the revelation of reported totals. These findings suggest that enhancing the activity of rTPJ decreased deception caused by impression management rather than self-deception in moral hypocrisy and unfairness through facilitating other-regarding concerns and weakening non-material self-centered motivations. They provide causal evidence for the role of rTPJ in both other-regarding concerns and non-material self-centered motivations, shedding light on the way to decrease moral hypocrisy.

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Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness

Tang

Wang

et al. 2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…The always activated areas include the DLPFC, VLPFC, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC), anterior PFC, and ACC. Additional posterior areas, such as the temporal-parietal cortex and cerebellum, were active in several studies (Langleben et al, 2002;Phan et al, 2005;Mohamed et al, 2006;Farrow et al, 2015;Kireev et al, 2015). These activations were confirmed in an analysis of connectivity that demonstrated an involvement of the fronto-parietal networks, cerebellum, and cingulo-opercular networks (Jiang et al, 2015).…”

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“…Neuroimaging studies have consistently demonstrated the crucial roles of the DLPFC, VLPFC, VMPFC, and ACC in deception; however, they also demonstrated the involvement of multiple brain areas, including the cerebellum and the temporal and parietal cortices (Langleben et al, 2005;Phan et al, 2005;Mohamed et al, 2006;Farrow et al, 2015;Kireev et al, 2015). It is not clear whether these regions are necessary to lie; however, the activation of the anterior-posterior network is confirmed by the analysis of connectivity that indicated a pattern of activation in the fronto-parietal networks, cerebellum, and cingulo-opercular networks (Jiang, et al, 2015).…”

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The guilty brain: the utility of neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies in forensic field

Mameli

Scarpazza

Tomasini

et al. 2017

Reviews in the Neurosciences

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AbstractSeveral studies have aimed to address the natural inability of humankind to detect deception and accurately discriminate lying from truth in the legal context. To date, it has been well established that telling a lie is a complex mental activity. During deception, many functions of higher cognition are involved: the decision to lie, withholding the truth, fabricating the lie, monitoring whether the receiver believes the lie, and, if necessary, adjusting the fabricated story and maintaining a consistent lie. In the previous 15 years, increasing interest in the neuroscience of deception has resulted in new possibilities to investigate and interfere with the ability to lie directly from the brain. Cognitive psychology, as well as neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies, are increasing the possibility that neuroscience will be useful for lie detection. This paper discusses the scientific validity of the literature on neuroimaging and neurostimulation regarding lie detection to understand whether scientific findings in this field have a role in the forensic setting. We considered how lie detection technology may contribute to addressing the detection of deception in the courtroom and discussed the conditions and limits in which these techniques reliably distinguish whether an individual is lying.

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“…For example, research conducted by Tom et al (2015) found results that the process of deceiving oneself and others is an indication of a person's tendency to pretend to be good (Faking Good) or faking bad. Impression management and self-deception in social desirability are different cognitive processes but cannot be separated.…”

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Faking Good Among Porn-Addicted Adolescents

Izdihar¹,

Fauzi²,

Dita³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the International Conference of Mental Health, Neuroscience, and Cyber-Psychology - Icometh-NCP 2018

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Pornography content is becoming an increasingly serious problem in Indonesia, where it is suspected that around 97% of 1,600 children and adolescents have been exposed to pornography. Various efforts prevalence of pornography content, such as by blocking porn known that the exposure of massive and periodic pornography content to children and adolescents can result in adverse e EEG (Edison, RE., et al) and fMRI (Prawiroharjo, P., et al) have reported changes in the brain activity of children and adolescents who were suspected as having addiction to pornography content. Intere among the subjects. This article discusses the phenomenon from the perspectives of psychology and neuroscience.

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Neural correlates of self-deception and impression-management

Cited by 15 publications

References 76 publications

Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness

Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness

The guilty brain: the utility of neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies in forensic field

Faking Good Among Porn-Addicted Adolescents

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