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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Pascual Ezama, David author Muñoz García, Adrián author Prelec, Drazen author 2021-08-21 According to the previous literature, only a few papers found better accuracy than a chance to detect dishonesty, even when more information and verbal cues (VCs) improve precision in detecting dishonesty. A new classification of dishonesty profiles has recently been published, allowing us to study if this low success rate happens for all people or if some people have higher predictive ability. This paper aims to examine if (dis)honest people can detect better/worse (un)ethical behavior of others. With this in mind, we designed one experiment using videos from one of the most popular TV shows in the UK where contestants make a (dis)honesty decision upon gaining or sharing a certain amount of money. Our participants from an online MTurk sample (N = 1,582) had to determine under different conditions whether the contestants would act in an (dis)honest way. Three significant results emerged from these two experiments. First, accuracy in detecting (dis)honesty is not different than chance, but submaximizers (compared to maximizers) and radical dishonest people (compare to non-radicals) are better at detecting honesty, while there is no difference in detecting dishonesty. Second, more information and VCs improve precision in detecting dishonesty, but honesty is better detected using only non-verbal cues (NVCs). Finally, a preconceived honesty bias improves specificity (honesty detection accuracy) and worsens sensitivity (dishonesty detection accuracy). Pascual-Ezama D, Muñoz A and Prelec D (2021) Do Not Tell Me More; You Are Honest: A Preconceived Honesty Bias. Front. Psychol. 12:693942. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.693942 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.693942 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/128761 1664-1078 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.693942 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.693942/full Do not tell me more, you are honest: a preconceived honesty bias