Our reasons for lying

The increase in lying is driven by the development of the ability to see the world from someone else's perspective. We gain an understanding of the beliefs, intentions, and knowledge of others.

The more we lie, the easier it becomes. Among two-year-olds, only 30 percent ar...

• 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 a...

As lies morph into a common, accepted standard, our attention (and obsession) is with guilt, fakeness, deceit and manipulation.

Human beings, according to countless behavioural studies, lie when they know they can get away with it, or when they see other people lie, and ev...