Abstract

Emotional awareness is defined as the ability to cognitively process emotional arousal and the expression thereof. When telling a lie, emotional awareness comes into play: the most important objective is to conceal one’s true emotions and fabricate false ones; simultaneously, however, one must control for the affective state of those who are to believe the falsehood; via such efforts, one can assess the potential for success in the deceit. With this in mind, we hypothesized that emotional awareness may play a vital role in the process of creating a convincing lie. Study participants (Group A, N = 40) were asked to complete the Polish adaptation of the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) and record videos consisting of plotting some truth or lie, which were then rated as true or false by 400 volunteers (Group B). Both samples (Group A and Group B) were recruited among students attending Polish universities. The results allowed us to confirm correlational relationships between emotional awareness (general, self-awareness, and awareness of others’ emotions) and the effectiveness of the deception. We were also able to confirm previous studies’ results about the truth bias in detecting lies and gender differences in emotional awareness.

摘要

情绪意识被定义​​为认知处理情绪唤醒及其表达的能力。说谎时，情绪意识开始发挥作用：最重要的目的是掩饰自己的真实情绪，捏造虚假的情绪；然而，与此同时，人们必须控制那些相信谎言的人的情感状态；通过这种努力，人们可以评估欺骗成功的可能性。考虑到这一点，我们假设情绪意识可能在创造令人信服的谎言的过程中发挥重要作用。研究参与者（A 组、N组 = 40) 被要求完成情绪意识水平量表 (LEAS) 的波兰语改编，并录制由绘制一些真相或谎言组成的视频，然后由 400 名志愿者（B 组）评定为真或假。两个样本（A 组和 B 组）都是在波兰大学的学生中招募的。结果使我们能够确认情绪意识（一般、自我意识和对他人情绪的意识）与欺骗有效性之间的相关关系。我们还能够证实先前研究的结果，即检测谎言时的真相偏见和情绪意识的性别差异。