I Can T Say Why People Lie Analysis

Eric Carr once said, “I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth”. The task of determining truth rests in the hands of every human at one point or another. In order to ascertain a statement’s truth value, we must analyze an individual’s known or unknown motives behind their statement, considering both formal and informal settings. In formal settings, such as a courtroom, provide jurors and onlookers with the difficult task of determining sincerity through isolated statements with insufficient context. A witness providing an objective view of both sides appears more credible to a jury, than, for example, the defendant’s best friend. Any involvement in a particular side projects bias in the statement, although, the witness’s history of truthfulness adds or removes credibility from the entirety of their statement. In contrast, a bystander who witnesses a crime holds less stake in the lives of the prosecution and defense, therefore, their statement likely represents the closest details that resemble the truth. The witness’s statement comes from their perception of memory, which often leads to incorrect details of the events that they observe. When multiple eyewitness accounts come to …show more content…
Building relationships with friends greatly aids an individual’s ability to know the truth value of the friend’s statement. Normally, a lie would include changes in behavior that an individual notices as unusual. Although, changes in behavior can also result from friends suppressing emotions of events in their personal lives. In personal life, an individual assesses whether or not a statement contains truth, while simultaneously observing the friend’s behavior. If the behavior turns out to differ from normal behavior, the individual concludes that either the statement remains untrue, or that a deeper emotion