30 facts about lies that you just need to know

"Everybody lies," says doctor Gregory house. And he's absolutely right. According to statistics, every man is a liar two or three times a day.

1. A lie is a statement known to be true.

2. The lie appears in legends, myths and fairy tales. In the Western tradition, a lie is a fault which is punished or corrected. In the Eastern tales often lies and trickery to save a life.

3. Mythomania, or complex Munchausen is an illness in which a person feels a constant need to distort the truth. With lies he creates an alternative reality, and often sincerely believes in his words.

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4. Lie detector or polygraph does not guarantee recognition of lies. The readings are based on the measurement of pressure and pulse of a person, but among the liars found a lot of people who are able to fool the detector. However, a study by the Federal National Security System have shown that modern polygraphs true 96%.

5. When a person is lying in his blood increases the content of cortisol and testosterone.

6. The "deceitful" country – China. In the experiment conducted by the University of East Anglia, revealed that 70% of the respondents lied in order to get the promised monetary reward.

7. Lies can be divided into spontaneous and planned.

8. Spontaneous liar can pretend to be a pose, a gesture or a glance, can not be said about the professional liar.

9. A spontaneous lie is a lie defensive, it usually occurs under the influence of circumstances and poorly remembered. It is a spontaneous liar is characterized by a large number of pauses, reservations, and speech errors.

10. The abundance of pauses in conversation is not a sign of lying. Maybe the person is just trying to pick up expressions.

11. Lies planned is reasonableness. The speech of the person becomes confident, collected, calm.

12. Scientists from the University of Hertfordshire found that men lie more women. According to Professor of evolutionary psychology Karen Payne, the average man is lying 1092 times a year, and a woman — 728 times.

13. Women often lie about his condition. The most popular phrase is "I'm fine", was proved by researchers at the London Science Museum.

14. According to the HeadHunter website, most liars are working in the field of trade – 67%.

15. Research conducted by the University of Amsterdam, showed that most lying occurs because of lack of time. People abumusa and decided, lie less.

16. From compulsive liars brain is working better and faster than people who lie spontaneously. The yalinga Yang, head of psychological studies at the University of southern California, asserts that their brain contains at 22-26% more white matter and more developed prefrontal cortex.

17. Truth serum, or sodium pentathol, not really able to force a man not to lie. It only removes the psychological filters of the person.

18. One of the famous liars of the twentieth century — Victor Lustig. In the story he came as a man, who twice sold the Eiffel tower.

19. To identify a liar in the eyes is almost impossible unless one deliberately going to lie.

20. Most religions believes a lie is a great sin. For example, in the Four Noble Truths in Buddhism it is said that one must go through self-discipline, avoiding including lie – the unjust speech.

21. The Christian faith teaches that lying is a great sin, for it is said "will live in my house treacherously; speaking lies shall not tarry in my sight" (Psalm 100:7).

22. Islam is one of the few religions, which in some cases endorses the lie. So, the eminent Muslim historian and theologian al-Tabari said, "a Lie is a sin, but not when it is to the benefit of the Muslim." Lies in the name of Islam is called takia, and withholding part of the truth – kitman.

23. Children begin to lie at about the same time when learning to talk. Most often this lie is not conscious. Children often use the same template to answer all the same questions, and the imagination makes them believe in what was said.

24. Lie is able even animals, says Stephen Nowicki, a biologist at Duke University. The results showed that to lie to each other can almost all representatives of fauna. For example, birds-Shrikes can voice warn relatives about the dangers, and can deliberately use an alarm to scare them away from food.

25. Psychologist Robert Wright in his book "the Moral animal" says that a lie is the engine of human evolution. According to the author, the more developed the communication system, the higher the level of lies in society.

26. Women, sorry to say lies in 82% of cases, men only 70%.

27. American scientists St. Mariam and Isaac H. Smith proved that people are honest only till noon. After a 12 hour day, the percentage of lies in the speech of the subjects began to rise, peaking in the evening.

28. There are 6 types of lies — manipulation as the manipulation information, the transmission of ambiguous information, inappropriate information, the omission and distortion.

29. When a person is lying, he experiences a whole range of emotions, the brightest of which are fear, joy, guilt and shame.

30. The concept of "white lies" appeared in ancient times. In politics a noble lie was made by Platon in "State".published 

 

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