Systematic Thinking Underlying Cross-Cultural Differences in Deception Acceptability

Claudia Castro*, Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales, Ernesto Octavio Lopez, Laura Olivares and Jaume Masip
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Claudia Castro*: Cognitive Science Laboratory Department of Psychology Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Mexico
Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales: Cognitive Science Laboratory Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la educación (IISUE) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
Ernesto Octavio Lopez: Cognitive Science Laboratory Department of Psychology Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Mexico
Laura Olivares: Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology University of Salamanca, Spain
Jaume Masip: Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology University of Salamanca, Spain

The Journal of Social Sciences Research, 2018, vol. 4, issue 11, 271-275

Abstract: This study aims to explore cultural differences between Spanish and Mexican individuals in how specific cognitive-based thinking explains judgment formation regarding deception acceptability. Here, participants from both populations were required to judge acceptability of actors´ lying and truth-telling tendencies across several social scenarios. These deception scenarios were built by considering experimental manipulation of the type of relationship with the deceiver, gender, motive, and deception consequences. Analysis results indicate that judgment formation of acceptability in both populations followed a cognitive summative rule to integrate factor information valuation. However, when considering valuation of telling lies to an unknown individual, acceptability was significantly different for the two populations. Spanish individuals viewed lying to an unknown individual significantly more acceptable than did Mexican participants.

Keywords: Lying; Information integration theory (IIT); Cognitive judgment formation; Deception acceptability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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