TY - JOUR A1 - Foerster, Anna A1 - Pfister, Roland A1 - Wirth, Robert A1 - Kunde, Wilfried T1 - Post-execution monitoring in dishonesty JF - Psychological Research N2 - When telling a lie, humans might engage in stronger monitoring of their behavior than when telling the truth. Initial evidence has indeed pointed towards a stronger recruitment of capacity-limited monitoring processes in dishonest than honest responding, conceivably resulting from the necessity to overcome automatic tendencies to respond honestly. Previous results suggested monitoring to be confined to response execution, however, whereas the current study goes beyond these findings by specifically probing for post-execution monitoring. Participants responded (dis)honestly to simple yes/no questions in a first task and switched to an unrelated second task after a response–stimulus interval of 0 ms or 1000 ms. Dishonest responses did not only prolong response times in Task 1, but also in Task 2 with a short response–stimulus interval. These findings support the assumption that increased monitoring for dishonest responses extends beyond mere response execution, a mechanism that is possibly tuned to assess the successful completion of a dishonest act. KW - lying KW - dishonest responding KW - monitoring Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-324862 VL - 87 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reis, Moritz A1 - Pfister, Roland A1 - Kunde, Wilfried A1 - Foerster, Anna T1 - Creative thinking does not promote dishonesty JF - Royal Society Open Science N2 - We assessed the relation of creativity and unethical behaviour by manipulating the thinking style of participants (N = 450 adults) and measuring the impact of this manipulation on the prevalence of dishonest behaviour. Participants performed one of three inducer tasks: the alternative uses task to promote divergent thinking, the remote associates task to promote convergent thinking, or a simple classification task for rule-based thinking. Before and after this manipulation, participants conducted the mind game as a straightforward measure of dishonesty. Dishonest behaviour increased from before to after the intervention, but we found no credible evidence that this increase differed between induced mindsets. Exploratory analyses did not support any relation of trait creativity and dishonesty either. We conclude that the influence of creative thinking on unethical behaviour seems to be more ambiguous than assumed in earlier research or might be restricted to specific populations or contexts. KW - dishonesty KW - creativity KW - thinking style KW - unethical behaviour KW - morality Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-349859 SN - 2054-5703 VL - 10 IS - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pfister, Roland A1 - Schwarz, Katharina A. A1 - Holzmann, Patricia A1 - Reis, Moritz A1 - Yogeeswaran, Kumar A1 - Kunde, Wilfried T1 - Headlines win elections: mere exposure to fictitious news media alters voting behavior JF - PloS One N2 - Repeatedly encountering a stimulus biases the observer’s affective response and evaluation of the stimuli. Here we provide evidence for a causal link between mere exposure to fictitious news reports and subsequent voting behavior. In four pre-registered online experiments, participants browsed through newspaper webpages and were tacitly exposed to names of fictitious politicians. Exposure predicted voting behavior in a subsequent mock election, with a consistent preference for frequent over infrequent names, except when news items were decidedly negative. Follow-up analyses indicated that mere media presence fuels implicit personality theories regarding a candidate’s vigor in political contexts. News outlets should therefore be mindful to cover political candidates as evenly as possible. KW - elections KW - Twitter KW - behavior KW - United States KW - India KW - metaanalysis KW - personality KW - political theory Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-349845 VL - 18 IS - 8 ER -