Self-Deception Reduces Cognitive Load: The Role of Involuntary Conscious Memory Impairment. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 People often hear classic allusions such as plugging one’s ears while stealing a bell, drawing cakes to satisfy one’s hunger, and the emperor’s new clothes. These allusions reflect a principle that people believe in nonexistent phenomena to satisfy their
Jian Z, Zhang W, Tian L, Fan W, Zhong Y.
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Paranoia, self-deception and overconfidence. [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol, 2021 Self-deception, paranoia, and overconfidence involve misbeliefs about the self, others, and world. They are often considered mistaken. Here we explore whether they might be adaptive, and further, whether they might be explicable in Bayesian terms.
Rossi-Goldthorpe RA +3 more
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The influence of different negative feedback on the decay of self-deception. [PDF]
Front PsycholIntroductionThough some studies have found the positive influences of moderate self-deception on individuals and society, there are many that have shown its negative influences on individuals and society.
Liu J, Ding W, Deng L, Tan M, Guan P.
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The Influence of Self-Control and Social Status on Self-Deception. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of self-control and social status on self-deception. The present study adopted a forward-looking paradigm to investigate how self-control and social status influence self-deception.
Ren M +9 more
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The Effect of Negative Feedback on Positive Beliefs in Self-Deception. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2019 In the present study, we applied the forward-looking paradigm to examine how positive beliefs appear in self-deception and to further reveal the influence of negative feedback on positive beliefs to decrease self-deception.
Liu J +8 more
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The slow decay and quick revival of self-deception. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.
Chance Z, Gino F, Norton MI, Ariely D.
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The Effect of Comparative Direction and Comparative Gap on Self-Deception. [PDF]
Psychol Res Behav ManagYing Yang,1,2 Bowei Zhong,3,4 Wenjie Zhang,2,5 Wei Fan1,2,6 1Department of Psychology, School of Education Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China; 2Hunan Key Laboratory of Cognition and Human Behavior, Hunan Normal ...
Yang Y, Zhong B, Zhang W, Fan W.
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LIBERALIZING SELF-DECEPTION: REPLACING PARADIGMATIC-STATE ACCOUNTS OF SELF-DECEPTION WITH A DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE SELF-DECEPTIVE PROCESS [PDF]
Les Ateliers de l’Ethique, 2018 In this paper, I argue that paradigmatic-state accounts of self-deception suffer from a problem of restrictedness that does not do justice to the complexities of the phenomenon. In particular, I argue that the very search for a paradigmatic state of self-
University of Florence
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR SELF-DECEPTION [PDF]
Les Ateliers de l’Ethique, 2018 In this paper, I argue that Alfred Mele’s conception of self-deception is such that it always fulfils the reasons-responsiveness condition for doxastic responsibility.
University of Zurich
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How Can Men Convicted of Violence Against Women Feel Moral While Holding Sexist and Violent Attitudes? A Homeostatic Moral Model Based on Self-Deception. [PDF]
Am J Mens Health, 2018 A moral model is proposed to understand how men convicted of violence against the partner can feel moral in spite of their past violent behavior and their current violent and sexist attitudes.
Vecina ML.
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