Frequency
"We define deception as a deliberate attempt to mislead others. Falsehoods communicated by people who are mistaken or self-deceived are not lies, but literal truths designed to mislead are lies. Although some scholars draw a distinction between deceiving and lying we use the terms interchangeably."
"Lying is a fact of everyday life. Studies in which people kept daily diaries of all their lies suggest that people tell an average of one or two lies a day." - from an article titled, "Cues to Deception" in The Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 129. Author: Bella M. DePaulo, et al. Dated 2003.
I don't know, but only one or two seems kind of low to me.
"Lying is a fact of everyday life. Studies in which people kept daily diaries of all their lies suggest that people tell an average of one or two lies a day." - from an article titled, "Cues to Deception" in The Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 129. Author: Bella M. DePaulo, et al. Dated 2003.
I don't know, but only one or two seems kind of low to me.
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i will never get those 3 minutes of my life back. thanks...
What 3 minutes?
yeah and i bet that people are lying about only lying once or twice a day too
Well, having now actually reread the paper (well, couple of papers) I was citing, I'm unsure of how or why people would lie about their frequency of lying. They were asked to keep diaries of all their social interactions and lie frequency.
It seems more likely that they'd lie by omission and fail to include lies they told rather than actually falsify their frequency. The number 1-2 comes from the median number of lies told per person per day in their studies.
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