This article is from Psyblog and it talked about how people lie within just minutes of meeting a person. It talks about a study that was performed, it had 121 people that were going to talk to someone new for 10 minutes. They separated the people into three groups, the first group had to try to present themselves so the other person thinks your competent. The second group had to present themselves as likeable to the other people, and the third group was the control they had no specific goal. All the groups were secretly video taped, and at the end they were asked to point out their own lies. After that they got to watch the tape, and write down any time they were lying. 40% of people claimed to have told no lies at all. That probably isn't far from the truth, they had no motivation to lie to the others. While the other 60% of people reported some lies, with the average being just under 3 lies in the 10 minutes they talked.
Lies are broke down into five areas, feelings, achievements, plans, expectations, and facts. The study was broken down into these five areas, with the three groups. The competent group of women told more lies about their feelings, while the likeable group of men told more lies about feelings.
Overall this article was interesting, i found it kind of funny that men told more lies about there feelings so they would be liked. Another thing was that lying is broken up into two types, good lies are pro-social, while bad lies are used to swindle people. But in the end most lies come back to hurt us in someway.
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I also read this article, and ever since I did, a lot of things make more sense to me! I definitely noticed that when people ask you how you are, it's definitely just to be polite, and they usually just want a quick answer so they can be on their way. This is where the "lying" comes in to play. But to me it's not considered lying as much as just trying to be polite. But it's a good article!
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