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The effects of objective self-awareness on lying suspects’ psychological characteristics

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2016, v.30 no.1, pp.115-130
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2016.30.1.007


Abstract

This study aims to examine the effects of objective self-awareness on the psychological characteristics of suspects when they tell a lie. To manipulate objective self-awareness, half the suspects were seated in front of a mirror and half were not during a polygraph test. After the polygraph test, the suspects were instructed to complete a psychological characteristics questionnaire focusing on such characteristics as shame/guilt, state anxiety, and impression management. Additionally, we divided the suspects into two groups depending on their polygraph test results to identify the differences in psychological characteristics between the lie and truth groups. The lie group showed significantly higher guilt than did the truth group; however, the two groups were not statistically significantly different in terms of their reporting of shame. In addition, there were differences in anxiety and impression management, depending on objective self-awareness. The lie group who completed the polygraph in front of a mirror were higher in anxiety and expressed more impression management than did those who were not in front of a mirror. In contrast, the truth group was unaffected by the presence of the mirror. These results showed there were differences in the psychological characteristics of the suspects in the two groups depending on objective self-awareness. These findings may help to correctly detect truth and lies in many applied settings, such as the forensic, judicial, and investigative domains.

keywords
거짓말, 객관적 자기인식, 죄책감, 불안, 인상관리, deception, objective self-awareness, guilty, anxiety, impression management

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