title: A massive experiment on choice blindness in political decisions: Confidence, confabulation, and unconscious detection of self-deception.
abstract: We implemented a Choice Blindness Paradigm containing political statements in Argentina to reveal the existence of categorical ranges of introspective reports, identified by confidence and agreement levels, separating easy from very hard to manipulate decisions. CBP was implemented in both live and web-based forms. Importantly, and contrary to what was observed in Sweden, we did not observe changes in voting intentions. Also, confidence levels in the manipulated replies where significantly lower than in non-manipulated cases even in undetected manipulations. We name this phenomenon unconscious detection of self-deception. Results also show that females are more difficult to manipulate than men.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.|Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.|El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rieznik
authors.affiliation: Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Lorena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moscovich
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, España.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frieiro
authors.affiliation: Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Julieta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Figini
authors.affiliation: El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Catalano
authors.affiliation: El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Juan Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Garrido
authors.affiliation: El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Facundo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Álvarez Heduan
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.|Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sigman
authors.affiliation: El Gato y La Caja, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Pablo A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics