Self-Deceived Individuals Are Better at Deceiving Others

Shakti Lamba; Vivek Nityananda

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104562

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Self-Deceived Individuals Are Better at Deceiving Others

Shakti Lamba ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Shakti Lamba, Vivek Nityananda

* E-mail: s.lamba@exeter.ac.uk (SL); vivek.nityananda@ncl.ac.uk (VN)

Affiliations Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, United Kingdom, Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Vivek Nityananda

Contributed equally to this work with: Shakti Lamba, Vivek Nityananda

* E-mail: s.lamba@exeter.ac.uk (SL); vivek.nityananda@ncl.ac.uk (VN)

Affiliations Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Neuroscience, Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Self-Deceived Individuals Are Better at Deceiving Others

Shakti Lamba,
Vivek Nityananda

Published: August 27, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104562

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True self-deception?

Posted by spispi on 18 Sep 2014 at 12:07 GMT

If high self-estimates produce lower effort and lower effort results in lower actual grades this could account for the correlation between self-deception and deception found in the study irrespective of the median estimate by peers.

A high positive correlation between self-deception and deception could actually be compatible with a small negative correlation between self-estimate and peer estimate. The conclusion to this is that maybe the true student self-deception consists in deceiving yourself into believing, that you can pass with a good grade without putting some hard work into studying.

No competing interests declared.

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