Serious Lies

DePaulo, Bella M.; Ansfield, Matthew E.; Kirkendol, Susan E.; Boden, Joseph M.

doi:10.1080/01973533.2004.9646402

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“…Empirical evidence supports that the most common reason for keeping secrets is being concerned about the social consequences (Afifi & Burgoon, 1998;Roesler & Wind, 1994) and the finding that perceived social disapproval significantly predicts secrecy (Major & Gramzow, 1999;Vrij, Paterson, Nunkoosing, Soukara, & Oosterwegel, 2003). Secrecy can also be used for impression management, which refers to the way people control others' perceptions of them by strategically concealing key personal information-for example, a married man who is not disclosing that he is married in order to create the impression that he is available for a serious relationship (Burgoon & Buller, 1994;DePaulo, Ansfield, Kirkendol, & Boden, 2004;Pachankis & Goldfried, 2006;Vohs, Baumeister, & Ciarocco, 2005;Woods & Harbeck, 1992).…”

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“It’s a Horrible Sin. If They Find Out, I Will Not be Able to Stay”: Orthodox Jewish Gay Men’s Experiences Living in Secrecy

Itzhaky

Kissil

2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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This qualitative study examined the intersection of sexual orientation and religion in the Jewish Orthodox community by exploring 22 Orthodox Jewish gay men's experiences living in secrecy. Analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with these men revealed four primary themes: emotional turmoil, ways of coping, impact on family relationships, and importance of the context. Findings from this study describe the daily struggles these men experienced keeping their homosexuality a secret. The findings suggest that in order to design effective interventions with this population, it is crucial to consider the larger community and religious context.

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Section: Secrecymentioning

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“It’s a Horrible Sin. If They Find Out, I Will Not be Able to Stay”: Orthodox Jewish Gay Men’s Experiences Living in Secrecy

Itzhaky

Kissil

2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…This type of lying is observable in preschool children as well as adults (Lewis, Stanger, & Sullivan, 1989;Talwar & Lee, 2002). Serious lies, which tend to be told more often in close interpersonal relationships, might be told to avoid discovery of an extramarital affair, for example (DePaulo, Ansfield, Kirkendol, & Boden, 2004). In legal and mental health contexts, such lies could be told to avoid prosecution, perhaps by malingering mental illness, or to help or hinder prosecution of another person.…”

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Adults' ability to detect children's lying

Crossman

Lewis²

2006

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Adults are poor deception detectors when examining lies told by adults, on average. However, there are some adults who are better at detecting lies than others. Children learn to lie at a very young age, a behavior that is socialized by parents. Yet, less is known about the ability to detect children's lies, particularly with regard to individual differences in the ability to detect this deception. The current study explored adult raters' ability to discern honesty in children who lied or told the truth about committing a misdeed. Results showed that adults are no better at detecting children's lies than they are with adult lies. In particular, adults were very poor at identifying children's honest statements. However, individual differences did emerge, suggesting that the ability to detect lying in children might be facilitated by relevant experience working with children. Implications for legal and mental health contexts are discussed.

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“…This implies that we might be particularly adept at reading the mental states of familiar others (i.e., those with whom we may perceive a heightened probability of strategic alliance), particularly given that our most serious lies tend to be exchanged among those with whom we are the closest (DePaulo, Ansfield, Kirkendol, & Boden, 2004). People tend to ascribe more complex mental states to members of their own versus other social groups (Paladino et al, 2002), and same-race faces are processed more holistically (Michel, Rossion, Han, Chung, & Caldara, 2006), more deeply (Levin, 1996), and are remembered better (Meissner & Brigham, 2001) than other-race faces.…”

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Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation

Adams

Rule

Franklin

et al. 2010

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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The ability to infer others' thoughts, intentions, and feelings is regarded as uniquely human. Over the last few decades, this remarkable ability has captivated the attention of philosophers, primatologists, clinical and developmental psychologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. Most would agree that the capacity to reason about others' mental states is innately prepared, essential for successful human social interaction. Whether this ability is culturally tuned, however, remains entirely uncharted on both the behavioral and neural levels. Here we provide the first behavioral and neural evidence for an intracultural advantage (better performance for same- vs. other-culture) in mental state decoding in a sample of native Japanese and white American participants. We examined the neural correlates of this intracultural advantage using fMRI, revealing greater bilateral posterior superior temporal sulci recruitment during same- versus other-culture mental state decoding in both cultural groups. These findings offer preliminary support for cultural consistency in the neurological architecture subserving high-level mental state reasoning, as well as its differential recruitment based on cultural group membership.

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Serious Lies

Cited by 73 publications

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“It’s a Horrible Sin. If They Find Out, I Will Not be Able to Stay”: Orthodox Jewish Gay Men’s Experiences Living in Secrecy

“It’s a Horrible Sin. If They Find Out, I Will Not be Able to Stay”: Orthodox Jewish Gay Men’s Experiences Living in Secrecy

Adults' ability to detect children's lying

Cross-cultural Reading the Mind in the Eyes: An fMRI Investigation

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