The Social Iowa Gambling Task: a promising tool for assessing deception detection in real-world contexts in adulthood.
Objectives Deception detection represents a complex form of social decision making under uncertainty with real-world consequences. Yet reliable tools to identify vulnerability to fraud and exploitation, marked by large individual variability, particularly among older adults, remain limited. Using a...
| Publicado en: | Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10795014 JGB jtl: Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences issn: 10795014 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2026 vid: 61 iid: 6 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 194432323 10.1093/geronb/gbag046 ppf: 1 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: The Social Iowa Gambling Task: a promising tool for assessing deception detection in real-world contexts in adulthood. aug: au: Frei, Vanessa Lighthall, Nichole R Faulkner, Ryan El-Shafie, Dalia Lin, Tian Brinke, Leanne ten Wilson, Robert C Ebner, Natalie C affil: Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesMcKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Laureate Institute for Brain Research, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada School of Psychology, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesCenter for Cognitive Aging and Memory, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States su: Florida Task performance Executive function Decision making Social perception Age distribution Emotions Uncertainty Deception Technology Trust Analysis of variance Interpersonal relations Lie detectors & detection Facial expression Adults Old age Mathematical variables Repeated measures design Prompts (Psychology) Research funding T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Academic libraries Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Magnetic resonance imaging Chi-squared test Neuropsychological tests Research methodology Research Statistics Comparative studies Calibration Data analysis software Video recording Cognitive flexibility Ecological research sug: subj: Task performance Executive function Decision making Social perception Age distribution Emotions Uncertainty Deception Technology Trust Analysis of variance Interpersonal relations Lie detectors & detection Facial expression Adults Old age Florida Libraries and Archives Investigation Services Diagnostic Imaging Centers Mathematical variables Repeated measures design Prompts (Psychology) Research funding T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Academic libraries Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Magnetic resonance imaging Chi-squared test Neuropsychological tests Research methodology Research Statistics Comparative studies Calibration Data analysis software Video recording Cognitive flexibility Ecological research ab: Objectives Deception detection represents a complex form of social decision making under uncertainty with real-world consequences. Yet reliable tools to identify vulnerability to fraud and exploitation, marked by large individual variability, particularly among older adults, remain limited. Using a short, scalable laboratory task, the Social Iowa Gambling Task (sIGT), we tested whether adaptive social decision making predicts interpersonal and technologically mediated deception detection. Methods Younger and older adults from a single cohort (Lie Task: N = 153; Deepfake Task: N = 149) completed the sIGT, assessing decision-making in the presence of congruent or incongruent facial trustworthiness cues. Participants judged the veracity of emotional pleas (Lie Task) and face images (Deepfake Task). Deception detection accuracy was analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effects models. Results Higher sIGT performance predicted greater lie detection accuracy for deceptive, but not truthful, videos, indicating selective sensitivity to misleading cues. Performance under incongruent facial-cue conditions, requiring resistance to trustworthiness bias, showed a stronger relationship with Lie Task accuracy. For the Deepfake Task, higher sIGT scores were associated with greater discernment of deepfakes from real faces, without moderation by facial-cue condition. For both tasks, predictive effects of sIGT performance were age-invariant. Discussion Study findings indicate that adaptive social decision-making can predict abilities to detect deception perpetrated through lying and AI-based deepfakes. Results suggest that the ability to adapt under conflicting social cues appears central to resisting lies. As a brief, standardized, and scalable laboratory measure, the sIGT shows promise for identifying individual vulnerability to deception and guiding tailored intervention strategies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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