Detecting Cheating and Deception in an Artificial and Social Setting
Detecting Cheating and Deception in an Artificial and Social Setting Evolutionary psychology is the combination of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology that seeks to explain human behavior. ... There were two studies on deception that will be discussed. Deception is defined as a disingenuous falsehood or deceit. The studies on deception that this article discussed were about using the act of deception to get a date. ... Deception was measured by the number of discrepancies between the male’s self-presentation to the woman he selected for his first choice to date and his self-presentation to the woman of his second choice to date. ... Also, there was a correlation between both male and female high self-monitors to use more deception in every personality inventory that he or she did. ... A slightly different study concerning the detection of cheating will be examined in the next paragraph. ... Cheating is defined as using deceit to gain a profit. ... Their hypothesis stated that conditional logic originated from the evolution of social exchange and that the detection of cheaters was tested against adult reasoning being logical and those errors in reasoning stimulated from misunderstandings (Lawson, 2002). ... This task involved cheater detection and social exchange, and the undergraduates were asked to choose cards of potential cheaters. ... Instead of being a task of a social exchange context, this task involved a context of engineering. Now according to the cheater detection hypothesis, participant performance should be higher in the drinking age task than that of the bridge inspector task, because the bridge inspector task did not involve cheater detection and social exchange.