Definition
The bogus pipeline is an experimental technique that encourages honest responding by leading participants to believe that the experimenter has access to their true attitudes through the ostensible use of a lie-detecting device.
Introduction
The bogus pipeline technique generally involves the use of physiological equipment (e.g., a lie detector) that ostensibly allows the researcher to know if individuals are responding truthfully or not. Therefore, it is assumed that individuals – believing that the experimenter has access to their true attitudes – will respond more honestly (Jones and Sigall 1971). This technique has been used successfully in past research to collect self-reports on topics that may elicit a strong social desirability bias in participant responses such as attitudes toward race (Plant et al. 2003; Sigall and Page 1971), sexuality (Alexander and Fisher 2003; Fisher 2013), homosexuality (Boysen et al. 2006), and cheating (Fisher and Brunell 2014). The bogus...
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Myers, E. (2020). Bogus Pipeline. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1215
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