In a Wall Street Journal article dated Oct. 31st, 2019, Susan Pinker describes a recent study that shows people are more likely to lie on fast-response times rather than delayed-time responses.
According to the [traditional view], the best way to get people to tell the truth is by eliciting lightning-quick responses, before they can reflect and dissemble.
But this may not be so, says a study published last month in the journal Psychological Science. It found that people are more likely to lie about themselves when under time pressure. “Asking people to respond quickly just makes them give you the answer you want to hear,” said John Protzko, the study’s first author and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Susan Pinker
As Dr. Protzko observed, many studies “assume that putting people under time pressure gives you access to a hidden part of the mind. But we’re finding that they’re just lying. They’re giving you the answer that makes them look best.” He adds, “When you make people answer quickly, everyone lies.”
The moral of the study? If you want the truth, you have to be willing to wait for it.
Susan Pinker, WSJ
I wrote the title of this post as an obvious humorous take on Kahneman’s book title, Thinking Fast and Slow.
My take on the results of this study from interrogation techniques is: the lapse of time can either help gauge an answered lie or make it more difficult (as in the results of this study). There no rule as to which outcome the lapse of time will achieve.
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