We are surrounded by false things, but what most of us think they know about them is most likely - you know, lie. Here are 10 facts about the lie that can surprise you.
- You can not recognize your eyes if someone lied
The lizard never looks at you, but his eyes are prickly. This is one of the most common beliefs, and it is completely wrong. Psychologists offer solid evidence for this after researching videos of people who lie and those who tell the truth. They have tracked how often they and the others look to the left and right, creating a "glimpse" effect. It is not found that we measure the difference between the people who cheat and those who tell the truth.
- No one has ever created a lie detector that really works
Despite the fact that there are courts that say, "Detector of lie" is considered as evidence, there are many examples of how easy it is to fool most detectors. In fact, everything they measure is stress and anxiety - and considering how many experienced foxes are calm under pressure and how many people are nervous just for the procedure - that can not tell us much. Some say functional magnetic resonance imaging can be used to detect fraud, but there is evidence that using transcranial magnetic stimulation can make people cheat more than usual.
- Lizards often mislead themselves
Although fraudsters and rascals often seem transparent in the eyes of others, they are likely to be crazy for themselves. The study, published in 2011, shows that people who transcribe tests tend to overestimate their abilities - even though they know they have transcribed them. In other words, to deceive yourself is no more difficult than to mislead the rest.
- Usually people lie when they are pressed with time
The lie is seldom intentional evil. Most people lie when they have to make a quick decision and have no time to think about the social consequences of the lie. According to a psychological survey published last year, people who want to make an instant decision will often lie in their own interest. Psychologist Shaul Slavi of Amsterdam University formulated this: "When people act quickly, they try to do everything they can to make a profit-including breaking the ethical rules and lying. When they have more time to think about it, it makes people reduce lies and refrain from fraud. "Given the abnormal time pressures in commerce and commodity exchanges, this discovery throws light on recent economic developments.
- The average American (and probably not only) is lying at least once a day - and believes he will be away most of the time
In a study that asks Americans how many times a day they lie, the average response is "once a day." Another study, conducted in the United States, revealed that in 56% of the time, respondents are convinced they can get away. The same study shows that Protestants are confident that their lie will go away 55% of the time, while Muslims consider it only 47% of the time.
- The lie may have occurred to facilitate cooperation between people
If you think, there is a logic. In their evolution, people had to cooperate to survive. And what is the best way to get the other to cooperate with you? Anyone who has seen Survivor knows that it's to deceive others what your real intentions are. As the authors of a study published earlier in the year published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: "The tactical delusion, interpreting the world differently to another person, can allow fraudsters to benefit from conditional co-operation tactically interpreting their past actions and / or their current intentions differently. "Lies can be a pillar of the greatest altruistic creation of our kind, the co-operation.
- Two-year-olds can lie deliberately
Are not the children too innocent to think of things to confuse or get what they want? No. People develop their ability to lie shortly after they learn to walk, proves research by psychologists.
- Compulsive liars become smarter
A study published in 2005 offers intriguing data on what is happening in the brain of people who lie all the time. Perhaps not surprisingly, they have much more "white matter" in the prefrontal cortex, that part of the brain that is responsible for cognition and rationality. Compulsive liars had 22-26% more white matter than the control group.
- "The Serum of Truth" does not guarantee that we will not lie
Despite what we've seen in movies, the sodium pentotal or "serum of truth" does not make people tell the truth. It just makes a person throw an infinite stream of information - part of which truth, another part fantasy, because his psychic "filters" are temporarily removed.
- Politicians have been liars since the dawn of Western civilization
We often call Ancient Greece the "cradle of democracy" - and centuries before the New Age, there is ample evidence that politicians have been liars. One of the most famous examples is the career of Alcibiades, who was known for the change of countries in the Peloponnesian wars. As an Athenian pro-war politician and strategist, he avoids Sparta, where he also fights the war. When things in Sparta go wrong, he goes back to Athens. His favorite political tactic was the deception.
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