Why Do We Lie? (And How To Spot A Liar) (Knowledge Box #2)

Why do we tell lies? Who taught us to lie? How can we tell when someone is lying to us? Lying is an incredibly useful skill to perfect in order to keep things running smoothly, but it can also be used for nothing more than pernicious deceit. To attempt to source the roots of deception causes us to inadvertently learn a significant amount about the history of humanity, evolution by natural selection, psychology, sociology, and of course our own modern selves. There's probably more to it than you'd think, so I hope you learn something interesting.

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Books

The Lying Ape (Brian King): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1840467991/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1840467991&linkCode=as2&tag=cosmskep-21

Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind (David Livingstone Smith): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0312310404/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0312310404&linkCode=as2&tag=cosmskep-21

The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0199219222/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0199219222&linkCode=as2&tag=cosmskep-21

Studies

University Of Massachusetts 2002 study (UMass website): https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-researcher-finds-most-people-lie-everyday-conversation
University Of Portsmouth 'Detecting True Lies': http://eprints.port.ac.uk/23/1/SAMJAP.pdf

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