Protesting too much: Self-deception and self-signaling
Name
Protesting_too_much....pdf
Size
109.29 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
182d41c68a45253b45a26b427e67cb67
Author(s)
McKay, Ryan
Mijovic-Prelec, Danica
Prelec, Drazen
Date Issued
February 2011
Journal
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Citation
McKay, Ryan et al. “Protesting Too Much: Self-Deception and Self-Signaling.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34, 1 (February 2011): 34–35 © 2011 Cambridge University Press
Version
Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Von Hippel & Trivers (VH&T) propose that self-deception has evolved to facilitate the deception of others. However, they ignore the subjective moral costs of deception and the crucial issue of credibility in self-deceptive speech. A self-signaling interpretation can account for the ritualistic quality of some self-deceptive affirmations and for the often-noted gap between what self-deceivers say and what they truly believe. Keywords: deception; evolutionary psychology; motivated cognition; self-deception; social psychology
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Terms of Use
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Persistent DSpace Link
DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10002608
