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Eight Types of Lies that People Tell
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Types of lies
- White Lies. People tell white lies claiming to be tactful or polite.
- Broken Promises. Failure to keep one’s spoken commitment or promise.
- The Lie of Fabrication. Telling others something you don’t know for sure is true.
- The Bold-Faced Lie. Telling something that everyone knows is a lie.
- The Lying in Exaggeration. Enhancing a truth by adding lies to it.
- Lies of Deception. A deceiver tries to create an impression that causes others to be misled, by not telling all the facts, or by creating a false impression.
- Plagiarism. Copying someone else’s work and calling it your own.
- Compulsive Lying. Tell their mistruths even when telling the truth would be easier and better.
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- The part of our brain that shows much activity when lying is our amygdalas - the one responsible for processing emotions and arousal, as well as the fight or flight response.
- It has been perceived that with every lie we tell there is a decrease of activity in our amygdala. The bigger the level drop of activity, the bigger the next lie will be.
- The more we lie the more we become desensitized to the negative emotions corresponding to each lie told.
Mindfulness and Emotional Awareness
To prevent desensitization we must be wary of every action and word we speak. It's basically practicing being mindful - the practice of paying attention to our body's every behavior and being present with our emotional state.
Once we develop our ability to be aware of our emotional state we can resist the unconscious desensitization of adverse emotions and reduce the chances of lying repetitively.
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Little Lies Can Cost You Money
[Researches Argo and Shiv] found that 85% of diners in restaurants admitted to telling white lies when their dining experiences were unsatisfactory (i.e., claiming all was well when it wasn't). The real interesting finding was that diners who told white lies to cover up their dissatisfactions were then likely to leave bigger tips than those who did not.
Lies Tax Your Brain, Cause Stress and Harm Your Body
Consider the polygraph machine. It doesn't actually detect lies, specifically, but rather the signs of stress that accompany telling them.
According to a study, those who were instructed on how to lie less reported improvements in their relationships, less trouble sleeping, less tension, fewer headaches, and fewer sore throats.