naa a22 4500 528744607 20180922060414.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180922s2013 xx s 000 0 eng 0022-3514 10.1037/a0034352 doi (EDOC)oai:edoc.unibas.ch:30945 Reinhard M. -A Unconscious Processes Improve Lie Detection [Elektronische Daten] [M. -A. Reinhard, R. Greifeneder, M. Scharmach] openAccess eu-repo The capacity to identify cheaters is essential for maintaining balanced social relationships, yet humans have been shown to be generally poor deception detectors. In fact, a plethora of empirical findings holds that individuals are only slightly better than chance when discerning lies from truths. Here, we report 5 experiments showing that judges' ability to detect deception greatly increases after periods of unconscious processing. Specifically, judges who were kept from consciously deliberating outperformed judges who were encouraged to do so or who made a decision immediately; moreover, unconscious thinkers' detection accuracy was significantly above chance level. The reported experiments further show that this improvement comes about because unconscious thinking processes allow for integrating the particularly rich information basis necessary for accurate lie detection. These findings suggest that the human mind is not unfit to distinguish between truth and deception but that this ability resides in previously overlooked processes. Greifeneder R. joint author Scharmach M. joint author Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 105 (5), pp. 721-739 0022-3514 https://edoc.unibas.ch/30945/3/Reinhard-Greifeneder-Scharmach_2013_Unconscious_processes_improve_lie_detection_manuscript.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Article edoc PeerReviewed edoc peerstatus EDOC 856 40 https://edoc.unibas.ch/30945/3/Reinhard-Greifeneder-Scharmach_2013_Unconscious_processes_improve_lie_detection_manuscript.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository EDOC 100 1- Reinhard M. -A EDOC 700 1- Greifeneder R. joint author EDOC 700 1- Scharmach M. joint author EDOC 773 0- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 105 (5), pp. 721-739 0022-3514 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 EDOC EDOC EDOC Article