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Self-deceive to countermine detection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Hui Jing Lu  and
Lei Chang
Hui Jing Lu
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China. luhuijing@cuhk.edu.hk leichang@cuhk.edu.hk http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/eps/people/changl.html
Lei Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China. luhuijing@cuhk.edu.hk leichang@cuhk.edu.hk http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/eps/people/changl.html
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Abstract

Having evolved to escape detection of deception completely, self-deception must respond to social conditions registering different probabilities of detection. To be adaptive, it must have a mechanism to keep truthful information temporarily from the self during deception and retrieve it after deception. The memory system may serve this mechanism and provides a paradigm in which to conduct research on self-deception.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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