White Lie's Promotion Effect on Cooperation Behavior:The Chain Mediating Role of Perceived Social Mindfulness and Trust
Due to the immense destructiveness of lies,people tend to avoid them at all costs,thereby neglecting the positive effects brought by white lies,which possess both altruism and deceit,as well as their impact on the third-party perspective.This study at-tempts to explore the influence of white lies on cooperation from the third-party perspective and clarify the psychological mechanisms through which white lies affect cooperation.Study 1 utilizes the trust game and public goods game experimental paradigms to investigate the relationship between white lies,trust,and cooperative behavior.The results indicate that white lies can significantly promote third-party's cooperative behavior,with the trust mediates the influence of white lies on cooperation.Study 2 builds upon Study 1 by introdu-cing the variable of perceived social mindfulness,further exploring the underlying mechanisms through which white lies influence coop-erative behavior.The results confirm the positive effect of white lies on cooperation,which is achieved through a chained mediation path involving perceived social mindfulness and trust.The findings above reveal the psychological mechanism through which white lies pro-mote cooperative behavior by enhancing perceived social mindfulness and trust,thereby broadening the scope of white lie research from the third-party perspective.This contributes to a dialectical view of lies among people and enables better utilization of white lies to fa-cilitate interpersonal communication and cooperation.
white liescooperationtrustperceived social mindfulnessthird-party
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