It becomes clear that Trivers favors, as he explains it, this 'offensive' view of self-deception, compared to a more popular 'defensive' view of self-deception - that we deceive ourselves to protect against attacks to our happiness and contentment from the (sometimes painful) truth of our surroundings (p. 54).
Therefore, the higher activation of medial and orbitofrontal prefrontal regions in tasks requiring both the processing of a malicious intent of one character and the ignorance of that intent by another character might well be related to the stronger emotional valence and perception of unfairness in the deception scenario compared to cooperation.
This deception was trivial compared to what she and Guay subsequently told her parents about him.
There are no temporal regions that commonly exhibit higher activation in stories containing a cooperation element compared to deception.
On the other hand, mentalizing about cooperation alone, but not about the combined cooperation/deception stories, led to higher activation in superior frontal gyrus (lefthemispheric BA 9 and 10) when compared to deception alone.
In left posterior cingulate gyrus (BA 31), both types of stories containing a deception element led to higher activation than stories dealing with cooperation alone, while both types of stories containing a cooperation element led to higher activation in right posterior cingulate gyrus (BA 31) compared to the deception stories.
We found that when compared to truth-telling, spontaneous deception, like instructed deception, engenders greater involvement of such prefrontal regions as the left superior frontal gyrus.
The nature and the deception of Yarnall's delivery is often compared to that of Sid Fernandez, the former left-hander for the Mets.
In our recent study on deception, increased neuronal activity was observed mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during lie-telling compared to truth-telling, and as the capacity for deception increased, the contrast between brain activities (lie vs. truth) decreased [ 7].
