Chinese People's Beliefs on Lying and Lie Detection Behavior

Inspired by Bond's research work on the word-wide stereotypes of liars,the researchers use the questionnaire developed by him and colleagues to probe for the Chinese people's stereotype of liars' lying behavior and the cues they use to detect deception.The researchers also investigated the stereotypical characteristics of liars and their estimation of their ability to detect other's lies and other's ability to detect their own lies.The responses of the participants were coded and analyzed to test the hypotheses.The results suggested that professionals whose job are closely related to lie detection hold significant different beliefs about lying behavior and cues to lie detection compared to laypersons and they are less dependent on the stereotypes of liars to detect deception,while the students are much dependent on the stereotypic characteristics of liars to detect deception.Besides,the results showed that Chinese tend to think that men are more likely to lie than women,adults are more likely to lie than children,Chinese are more likely to lie than foreigners and acquaintances(including friends and family members) are more likely to lie than strangers.The researches give several explanations of the results based on previous theoretical and applied research on lying and lie detection.Limitations of the present research and directions for future are discussed.