Rizal, Philippines, December 7, 2013
From Nat Geo brain games on Lying
Celebrating the truth (and the lies)
We often pride ourselves with "honesty is the best policy" "Good people also finish first"
But what do we see. A former lady President said, sorry, "She lied"
A President of a Republic, as was being interviewed was telling a different story from the one being verified by a Christian named anchor of international news agency.
The President of the strongest nation told his people that they will be able to use their old health insurances. Now the jury is out: they cant. The $200.00 per month premium insurances will not be replaced by whopping $1,200 per month health insurance.
An 7 time world champion of Tour de France vehemently denied his involvement in doping, but at the end of the day was caught, people testifiied vs him and proved he routinely doped.
Criminals murderers, and their advocates, govt officials, politicians, routinely lie. It is more of a habit rather than exception, because as this Nat Geo says, we are born to lie, even at 6 mos old. (Vasudevi Reddy, a psychologist at the University of Portsmouth in Great Britain, found that babies as young as six months old engage in fake crying to simulate distress, )
As we grow up lying becomes more and more complicated
Do you believe this? 60% of the people lied at least once in a 10 minute conversation?
"xxx students published in Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology in 2002, he found that 60 percent of people lied at least once during a 10 minute conversation, and that on average they told two or three lies in that stretch. The falsehoods ranged from pretending that they were fond of someone they didn’t actually liked, to claiming phony achievements, such as being the star of a famous rock band. Women tended to like to make others feel good, while men more often told lies intended to make themselves look better. But either way, the telling of falsehoods was such a deeply ingrained practice that experimental subjects didn’t even realize they were doing it. When shown surreptitious video of their mendacity, "people found themselves lying much more than they thought they had," Feldman said."
Species survive using deception as a matter of strategy. So even primates like humans lie most of the time.
Is there any hope for the world full of lying?
Most common lies we tell people:
- I’m just a few minutes away.
- I’m fine.
- I’m just kidding.
- Thank you for this wonderful gift. I love it!
- Sorry I couldn’t take your call.
The truth is for most people, it is easier to tell the truth than to lie. When we lie, our motor nerves and thinking part of the brain comes into conflict; thus we may have mannerism when we lie, takes us longer to reply, and we can detect liars.
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