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The scoop on lies comes to us from a British study published earlier this month.  Investigators surveyed 194 men and women, average age 39, about the lies they tell and hear.

 

The results:

• Men consider themselves good liars twice as often as women.
• Liars lie face-to-face followed by texts, phone calls, email, and social media.
• A few liars are responsible for most lies.
• Liars are articulate and weave stories that deviate only slightly from the truth.
• Most lies are told to family and friends; the least to employers and authorities.
• We only have a 50:50 chance of detecting a lie.

 

With that, look out for a barrage of lies in 2020.

 

Brianna L. Verigin, Ewout H. Meijer, Glynis Bogaard, Aldert Vrij. Lie prevalence, lie characteristics and strategies of self-reported good liars. PLOS ONE, 2019; 14 (12): e0225566 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225566

 

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