A convincing deceiver must act in discordance with their knowledge of the truth. To do so
requires the deceiver to resolve competition between what is known to be true and what is …

A cornerstone of the task switching literature is the finding that task performance is typically
slower and more error-prone when the task switches than when it repeats. So far, deception …

Both the science and the everyday practice of detecting a lie rest on the same assumption:
hidden cognitive states that the liar would like to remain hidden nevertheless influence …

A persistent question in the deception literature has been the extent to which nonverbal
behaviors can reliably distinguish between truth and deception. It has been argued that …

The ability to deceive others is a high-level social and cognitive function. It has been
suggested that response conflict and cognitive control increase during deceptive acts but …

Cognitive theorists argue that deception may involve attentional capture, working memory
load, or perceived incongruity with memory, whereas psychophysiologists argue for stimulus …

Cognitive models of deception focus on the conflict-inducing nature of the truth activation
during lying. Here we tested the counterintuitive hypothesis that the truth can also serve a …

Human social cognition critically relies on the ability to deceive others. However, the
cognitive and neural underpinnings of deception are still poorly understood. Why does lying …

Deception has been demonstrated as a task that involves executive control such as conflict
monitoring and response inhibition. In the present study, we investigated whether or not the …

Deception research has focused on identifying peripheral nervous system markers while
ignoring cognitive mechanisms underlying those markers. Cognitive theorists argue that the …