Have you caught someone lying to you? What did you do to him/her? Are you in good terms? If we could just knew what is the truth so that they will not lie to us. Maybe they have certain reasons but lying is still wrong. As much as possible we need to refrain from lying because it might in danger us.
I read an article entitled, "Believe or Deceive" from the site livescience.com by Denise Chow. Stated that, Lying may be a common human behavior to us, but despite the inevitable nature of deception, humans are surprisingly inconsistent when it comes to separating fact from fiction. Example, many people think liars shy away from making eye contact, blink a lot or fidget as they speak. People are no better or worse at detecting lies than if they had left their judgement up to chance. It's harder for people to know if they're telling the truth or not.
Honts said, "People lie for all kinds of different reasons: Impression management, to obtain an advantage, to avoid punishment, and some of these are obviously more serious than others." We lie for a specific purpose maybe it is important or not. But some liars are so good that you can't even detect that their lying. If you knew the person you will easily find it out. But if not, then it will be harder for you.
Another article I read entitled, "Detecting Deception" from www.apa.org by Rachel Adelson. Stated that, "Liars' answer sound more exclusive and ambivalent, the structure of their stories is less logical, and their stories sound less believable," they say. Liars also use fewer hand movements to illustrate their actions but are more likely to repeat words and phrases. Fewer first-person pronouns because liars avoid statements of ownership, distance themselves from their stories and avoid taking responsibility for their behaviour. More negative emotion words, such as hate, worthless and sad. Liars, are generally more anxious and sometimes feel guilty. Fewer exclusionary words, such as except, but or nor words that indicate that writers distinguish what they did from what they did not do. Liars seem to have a problem with this complexity, and it shows in their writing.
Psychologist, Paul Ekman said, "It's much harder to find the truth than to find a lie. A good lie-catcher is good at identifying truthfulness." It's much easier to find people who are liars than people who are telling the truth. In lying, you are pleasing a person. You want him/her to feel comfortable and make him/her happy.
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