ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021
Cognitive Control Promotes Either Honesty or Dishonesty, Depending on One's Moral Default.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Making decisions immediately post-stress: Evidence for dorsolateral prefrontal cortex involvement with an fMRI study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Unraveling the neural basis of repeated moral decisions with mouse tracking and fMRI.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Behavioral dishonesty in multiscenes: Associations with trait honesty and neural patterns during (dis)honesty video-watching.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Reputation risk during dishonest social decision-making modulates anterior insular and cingulate cortex activity and connectivity.Communications biology · 2023Article
- The acute effects of stress on dishonesty are moderated by individual differences in moral default.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Role of Cognition in Dishonest Behavior.Brain sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Cognitive control is crucially involved in making (dis)honest decisions. However, the precise nature of this role has been hotly debated. Is honesty an intuitive response, or is will power needed to override an intuitive inclination to cheat? A reconciliation of these conflicting views proposes that cognitive control enables dishonest participants to be honest, whereas it allows those who are generally honest to cheat. Thus, cognitive control does not promote (dis)honesty per se; it depends on one's moral default. In the present study, we tested this proposal using electroencephalograms in humans (males and females) in combination with an independent localizer (Stroop task) to mitigate the problem of reverse inference. Our analysis revealed that the neural signature evoked by cognitive control demands in the Stroop task can be used to estimate (dis)honest choices in an independent cheating task, providing converging evidence that cognitive control can indeed help honest participants to cheat, whereas it facilitates honesty for cheaters.
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