The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions
Communication based on informational asymmetries abounds in politics, business, and almost any other form of social interaction. Informational asymmetries may create incentives for the better-informed party to exploit her advantage by misrepresenting information. Using a game-theoretic setting, we i...
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| author | Kirsten G Volz Kai eVogeley Marc eTittgemeyer D Yves eVon Cramon Matthias eSutter |
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| description | Communication based on informational asymmetries abounds in politics, business, and almost any other form of social interaction. Informational asymmetries may create incentives for the better-informed party to exploit her advantage by misrepresenting information. Using a game-theoretic setting, we investigate the neural basis of deception in human interaction. Unlike in most previous fMRI research on deception, the participants decide themselves whether to lie or not. We find activation within the right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ), the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the (pre)cuneus (CUN), and the anterior frontal gyrus (aFG) when contrasting lying with truth telling. Notably, our design also allows for an investigation of the neural foundations of sophisticated deception through telling the truth—when the sender does not expect the receiver to believe her (true) message. Sophisticated deception triggers activation within the same network as plain lies, i.e., we find activity within the rTPJ, the CUN, and aFG. We take this result to show that brain activation can reveal the sender’s veridical intention to deceive others, irrespective of whether in fact the sender utters the factual truth or not. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d3ed1a0c1ea48718f6880cb939762122022-12-22T03:52:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532015-02-01910.3389/fnbeh.2015.00027120916The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic InteractionsKirsten G Volz0Kai eVogeley1Marc eTittgemeyer2D Yves eVon Cramon3Matthias eSutter4Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)University Hospital CologneMax Planck Institute for Metabolism ResearchMax Planck Institute for Metabolism ResearchUniversity of InnsbruckCommunication based on informational asymmetries abounds in politics, business, and almost any other form of social interaction. Informational asymmetries may create incentives for the better-informed party to exploit her advantage by misrepresenting information. Using a game-theoretic setting, we investigate the neural basis of deception in human interaction. Unlike in most previous fMRI research on deception, the participants decide themselves whether to lie or not. We find activation within the right temporo-parietal junction (rTPJ), the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the (pre)cuneus (CUN), and the anterior frontal gyrus (aFG) when contrasting lying with truth telling. Notably, our design also allows for an investigation of the neural foundations of sophisticated deception through telling the truth—when the sender does not expect the receiver to believe her (true) message. Sophisticated deception triggers activation within the same network as plain lies, i.e., we find activity within the rTPJ, the CUN, and aFG. We take this result to show that brain activation can reveal the sender’s veridical intention to deceive others, irrespective of whether in fact the sender utters the factual truth or not.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00027/fullHabenuladeceptionfMRIexperimenttemporo-parietal junctionStrategic interactions |
| spellingShingle | Kirsten G Volz Kai eVogeley Marc eTittgemeyer D Yves eVon Cramon Matthias eSutter The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Habenula deception fMRI experiment temporo-parietal junction Strategic interactions |
| title | The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions |
| title_full | The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions |
| title_fullStr | The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions |
| title_short | The Neural Basis of Deception in Strategic Interactions |
| title_sort | neural basis of deception in strategic interactions |
| topic | Habenula deception fMRI experiment temporo-parietal junction Strategic interactions |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00027/full |
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