Lies In Evreyday

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A person once said ´´ the truth does not cost a person anything, but a lie costs a person everything ´´. The aim of the study is to take closer look at how the kinds of lies and sex differences in lying demonstrated in the scientific article are related with Pamela Myer´s ted talk. Moreover, it will ta

In the scienitefic article Lying in Evreyday life written by Depaulo (1996) showed participants that took part of a study. Before the participants entered the study , they attended an ninety minute meeting in which the rules of the study were explained .The participants were told that that all their lies and interactions would be recorded for an entire week. The investigators also explained to the students that they would study lying scientifically
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In the article it is told that lies were shown in the studies to describe about feelings, knowledge, and achievements In order to prove a point they created subcategory of feelings . The positive subcategory consists of lies in which people pretended to like someone more than they did. . This could be clearly shown in Meyer's ted talk when Diana Downs spoke about how much she misses and and remembers her own daughter, In the video Downs pretended to love her daughter more than she did, especially when she did not show signs of sorrow. Next, it was predicted in the scientific article that participants would tell more self centered lies than other oriented lies and that woman would tell other lies. The results showed that college students told most of the self centered lies which was approximately forty five percent. The woman told other oriented lies in the collage study. This was displayed in the ted talk, specifically when woman told lies in order to protect other people. Lastly, this leads to discussion about a post truth society, where lie spotters get to the truth ninety percent of the time. as it was established in the article there was a non contacted denial and and a distanced language in which Bill clanton also used informal language by using the word ´´that woman´´. In the scientific article , there were not lie spotters . The participants used records that tracked their lies during their seven day record period. After it was completed , they were supposed to answer such as ´´ Was a lie ever discovered ? . This shows uncertainty and a lack of a

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