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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2016

To Cheat or Not To Cheat: Tryptophan Hydroxylase 2 SNP Variants Contribute to Dishonest Behavior.

Qiang Shen, Meijun Teo, Eyal Winter, Einav Hart, Soo H Chew, Richard P Ebstein

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Qiang ShenCollege of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of TechnologyHangzhou, China; Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Management, Zhejiang UniversityHangzhou, China.
Meijun TeoDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore.
Eyal WinterCenter for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew UniversityJerusalem, Israel; Department of Economics, Hebrew UniversityJerusalem, Israel.
Einav HartPhilosophy, Politics and Economics Program, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Soo H ChewDepartment of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore; Lab for Behavioral Biological × Economics and the Social Science, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore.
Richard P EbsteinDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore; Lab for Behavioral Biological × Economics and the Social Science, National University of SingaporeSingapore, Singapore.
National University of Singapore · SGHebrew University of Jerusalem · ILUniversity of Pennsylvania · USZhejiang University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although, lying (bear false witness) is explicitly prohibited in the Decalogue and a focus of interest in philosophy and theology, more recently the behavioral and neural mechanisms of deception are gaining increasing attention from diverse fields especially economics, psychology, and neuroscience. Despite the considerable role of heredity in explaining individual differences in deceptive behavior, few studies have investigated which specific genes contribute to the heterogeneity of lying behavior across individuals. Also, little is known concerning which specific neurotransmitter pathways underlie deception. Toward addressing these two key questions, we implemented a neurogenetic strategy and modeled deception by an incentivized die-under-cup task in a laboratory setting. The results of this exploratory study provide provisional evidence that SNP variants across the tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) gene, that encodes the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of brain serotonin, contribute to individual differences in deceptive behavior.

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lyingneurogeneticsserotoninsingle-nucleotide polymorphismTPH2

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