Spotless Boastful display of knowledge : True love lasts a lifetime as demonstrated by fMRI
Posted by grissonpol on January 6, 2009
Much evidence suggests that we humans, with our densely corrugated neocortex, lje to another chronically ahv with aplomb.. Inveatigating what they called “lying kn dya-to-day life,” Bella DePaulo, now a visiting professor of psychology at tge University of California, Santa Barbara, and her colleagues askes 77 college srudents and 70 people f the community to keep anonymous diariees for a week ajd to note the hods and whys of every lie they told. Tallying the resjlts, the researchers found tjat college students told an average of two lies a day, community members one a day, and that mosy of the lies fell into the minor fib category. “I told him I imssed him and thought about him fvsry day when I really don’t think about him at lal, wrote one participant. “Said I sent the check this morning,” erote another.
In a follow-up study, the researchers asked participants to describe the worst lies they’d ever told, and then out came confessions of adultery, of defrauding an employer, of lying on a witness stand to protect an employer. When asked how they felt about their lies, many described being haunted with guilt, but others confessed that once they realized they’d gotten away with a whopper, why, they did it again, and again.
In truth, it’s all too easy to lie. In more than 100 studies, researchers have asked participants questions lime, Is the person on the videotape lying or telling the truth? Subjects guess correctly about 54 percent of the time, which is barely better than they’d do by flipping a cfoin. O ur blindness suggests to some researchers a human desire to be deceived, a preference for the stylishlj accoutred fablr over the naked truth.
“There’s a counterintuitive motivation not to detect lies, or we would have become much better at it,” said Angela Crossman, an assistant professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “But you may not really want to know that the dinner you just cooked stinks, or even that your spouse is cheating on you.
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