Double Standards In Self-Deception: The Development Of The Self-Other Double Standards Scale

<p>Self-Deception creates a mental state in which an individual unquestioningly maintains a belief that has clearly been refuted and proven faulty by some information which the self-deceiver has come to possess. However, aside from personality trait measures, no measurement techniques have been developed which capture the act of Self-Deception in a laboratory setting. In order to fill this need, the current research sought to examine the relationship between self-deception and cognitive dissonance, and used this relationship to create the Double Standards scale. </p> <p>In the current research, participants completed several surveys online. They then came into the lab, where they were be randomly assigned to Affirmed and Deaffirmed conditions. It was found that asking participants to recall their past behaviors condom use caused those participants to significantly lower their estimation of the average person's likelihood to use condoms, but not to change their ratings of their own likelihood. It was also found that Affirmed participants did not lower their ratings of others as much as participants in the Deaffirmed condition. The implications for these findings are discussed. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Lindsay, Benjamin T.

• Dissonance
• Double Standards
• Self-Affirmation
• Self-Deception
• Psychology

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2013 Benjamin T. Lindsay

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/190

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1188