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What is a lie? Is it mere deception, the occasional un-truth or something far deeper and essential to human nature? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I plunge into the cognitive depths of fibs, half-truths and bold-faced lies to examine our amazing abilities to warp perceived reality with language.
Plus, where does lying come from? How does it factor into evolution and what are some tips for seeing right through the lies of others. All this and more will be revealed.
It’s easy to overlook the power of lies. While truth-telling is mentally and physically a normal activity, lying forces us to fake typically subconscious inflections and movements. We construct facts to fabricate a false page of reality and then — via our incredible memory-prediction framework — project that false page of reality into the past or present. In doing so, we remake our own perceived reality and/or that of another.
Ever since Fox news began covering the Wisconsin Protests, there has been consistent heckling whenever a Fox reporter does an on-the-scene report. The following video demonstrates the heckling, but around 2:30 it demonstrates something else: In the video, the reporter claims that he was hit. Is this true? The creator of the following video claims [...]
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Lying and Objectum Sexuality
by Molly Edmonds | January 28, 2011
I’m going to start this blog post by promising you that I won’t lie anywhere in the following text. Not that that’s unusual — I tend to tell the truth when I write these summaries of what was discussed on Stuff Mom Never Told You, but this week, in particular, it feels necessary to affirm my vow of honesty. That’s because on Monday, Cristen and I discussed lying.
Here’s ugly truth: everyone’s a liar. Me and you and everyone we know is constantly lying through our teeth. OK, maybe not constantly, but a lot. We instinctively fudge details here and there in order to avoid conflict, curry favor and make ourselves look better. In fact, people fib so often that psychologists accept it [...]
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