Liars
Do you know that on average, a person lies 15 times a week especially to his/her nearest and dearest? And people lie most to people of opposite sexes. "I Love You.", "I'm not usually like this", "I don't have anything to wear.", "I'm not feeling well today." Familiar???
It is hard to spot a lie because our first instinct is always to believe, in fact, we can only spot lies correctly 15% of the time. Who can blame us when we are told the turth more than we are being lied to?
Most people thought that the eyes tell the truth, but in actual fact, our entire face is a mass of information to spot lie. Our face can have 46 seperate movements which combine to form different expressions. We can control our expression most of the time, however, when we are stress, our real expression just leak.
There are two reasons why people lie. First and most basic reason is survival. We lie because we want to protect ourselves. Under difficult circumstances, we have to lie to get a job, save our job, be accepted in our social group, stay away from trouble and save our life. Not only humans do that. In fact, many animals camouflage themselves to either protect themselves or aid them in catching prey. The second reason is because we lie to avoid hurting people. We have empathy of other people when we place ourselves in their shoes. Picture yourselves in this situation, if you are viewing a piece of art that you feel a three-year-old can do better than that and then the artist walk up to you and started to explain his feelings, his ideas, motivations and story behind this piece of art. Much as you denied his sincere explanations, would you actually tell him straight in the face that his art work is junk?
The information is gathered from a documentary show call ExposedLiars. Please comment if you feel that any part of the above are not correct. Thank you!
It is hard to spot a lie because our first instinct is always to believe, in fact, we can only spot lies correctly 15% of the time. Who can blame us when we are told the turth more than we are being lied to?
Most people thought that the eyes tell the truth, but in actual fact, our entire face is a mass of information to spot lie. Our face can have 46 seperate movements which combine to form different expressions. We can control our expression most of the time, however, when we are stress, our real expression just leak.
There are two reasons why people lie. First and most basic reason is survival. We lie because we want to protect ourselves. Under difficult circumstances, we have to lie to get a job, save our job, be accepted in our social group, stay away from trouble and save our life. Not only humans do that. In fact, many animals camouflage themselves to either protect themselves or aid them in catching prey. The second reason is because we lie to avoid hurting people. We have empathy of other people when we place ourselves in their shoes. Picture yourselves in this situation, if you are viewing a piece of art that you feel a three-year-old can do better than that and then the artist walk up to you and started to explain his feelings, his ideas, motivations and story behind this piece of art. Much as you denied his sincere explanations, would you actually tell him straight in the face that his art work is junk?
The information is gathered from a documentary show call ExposedLiars. Please comment if you feel that any part of the above are not correct. Thank you!
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