Lies, smiles, and self-disclosure : an examination of how social functional smiles mediate the relationship between lying and self-disclosure
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Psychology, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Brown, Cameo
issued: 2024-09-05T22:43:29Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Lies are ubiquitous in interpersonal communication. Despite their prevalence, people are generally unsuspecting of deception in social interactions. Even when asked to evaluate veracity directly, people only perform slightly better than chance. Taken together, these findings suggest that lies are often ‘missed’ and people are easily duped. This study considers an alternative possibility; that people naturally restrict their interactions with liars (vs. truth-tellers), even in the absence of suspicion about deception. Specifically, I investigated whether people are less willing to disclose personal information to liars, relative to truth-tellers. Receivers (N = 230) watched videos of 20 senders claiming to like a target person. Half of these claims were true; the other half, deceptive. Following each video, receivers rated their willingness to share personal information in a hypothetical conversation with each sender. Consistent with my hypothesis, results demonstrated that individuals were less willing to self-disclose personal information to liars, relative to truth tellers. Additionally, a novel set of behaviors—social functional smiles—were explored as potential mediators of this effect. Although I did not find support for these behaviors as mediators, the presence and duration of social functional smiles did vary by veracity. Truth-tellers engaged in more reward smiles and fewer dominance smiles, relative to deceptive senders. Taken together, this study enhances our understanding of senders’ behavioural cues to deception and receivers’ indirect reactions to lies in conversation.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/89182
note: Lies, Smiles, and Self-Disclosure: An Examination of How Social Functional Smiles Mediate the Relationship Between Lying and Self-Disclosure by Cameo Brown B.A., Loyola Marymount University, 2022 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Psychology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) August 2024 © Cameo Brown, 2024ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: Lies, Smiles, and Self-Disclosure: An Examination of How Social Functional Smiles Mediate the Relationship Between Lying and Self-Disclosure submitted by Cameo Brown in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Masters of Arts . Dr. Leanne ten Brinke Supervisor Dr. Paul G. Davies, Psychology Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Lauren Human, Psychology Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Anita Chaudhuri, Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner iii Abstract Lies are ubiquitous in interpersonal communication. Despite their prevalence, people are generally unsuspecting of deception in social interactions. Even when asked to evaluate veracity directly, people only perform slightly better than chance. Taken together, these findings suggest that lies are often ‘missed’ and people are easily duped. This study considers an alternative possibility; that people naturally restrict their interactions with liars (vs. truth-tellers), even in the absence of suspicion about deception. Specifically, I investigated whether people are less willing to disclose personal information to liars, relative to truth-tellers. Receivers (N = 230) watched videos of 20 senders claiming to like a target person. Half of these claims were true; the other half, deceptive. Following each video, receivers rated their willingness to share personal information in a hypothetical conversation with each sender. Consistent with my …
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0445321
language: eng
degree discipline: Psychology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Ten Brinke, Leanne Marie
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89182