Version 1
: Received: 10 May 2023 / Approved: 12 May 2023 / Online: 12 May 2023 (13:39:40 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 18 January 2024 / Approved: 19 January 2024 / Online: 19 January 2024 (10:01:30 CET)
How to cite:
Ende, L.; Reinhard, M.-A. Rich and Easy to Deceive? The Influence of Money Priming on the Ability to Detect Deception. Preprints2023, 2023050953. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0953.v2
Ende, L.; Reinhard, M.-A. Rich and Easy to Deceive? The Influence of Money Priming on the Ability to Detect Deception. Preprints 2023, 2023050953. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0953.v2
Ende, L.; Reinhard, M.-A. Rich and Easy to Deceive? The Influence of Money Priming on the Ability to Detect Deception. Preprints2023, 2023050953. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0953.v2
APA Style
Ende, L., & Reinhard, M. A. (2024). Rich and Easy to Deceive? The Influence of Money Priming on the Ability to Detect Deception. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0953.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ende, L. and Marc-André Reinhard. 2024 "Rich and Easy to Deceive? The Influence of Money Priming on the Ability to Detect Deception" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.0953.v2
Abstract
Based on recent popular money priming research results, which conclude that money makes self-sufficient (e.g. less interest in other people), we assumed that people are less interested in finding out whether others are lying or telling the truth. In a laboratory experiment, 163 students (85 women, 78 men, MAge = 23.08, ranging from 18 to 36 years) were primed by actively handling money (versus paper sheets). Afterwards, they classified 24 video statements as true or deceptive (senders describing their most/least favorite movie), rated their classification confidence for each decision and then answered control questions. Results revealed no influence of priming condition on judgmental bias, classification accuracy, and classification confidence. Also the level of self-reported motivation to find out who lied or told the truth did not differ between conditions. Higher motivation was correlated to higher classification confidence. Additionally, and in line with Reinhard (2010) and Reinhard et al. (2011), higher classification accuracy correlated to a higher use of verbal content cues for classification decisions. Thus, while we were able to replicate these findings, our results contradict the assumption of a money prime influence on lie detection ability. Concluding, our results make self-sufficiency in this context questionable and offer next steps for research.
Keywords
Money; Money prime; Credibility judgment; Deception detection; Lie and truth classification
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
19 January 2024
Commenter:
Luise Ende
Commenter's Conflict of Interests:
Author
Comment:
In the abstract were embedded line numbers, from a format that was used in the template of a Journal. This was confusing when reading the abstract, therefore they are deleted now. Furthermore, we updated the manuscript version in terms of the review process.
Commenter: Luise Ende
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Furthermore, we updated the manuscript version in terms of the review process.