![]() "I would lie to my friends because they might know my family and tell them and sometimes I would lie to my colleagues and I began thinking my lies were real and I began to start believing my own lies." "I was lying to my parents and family even extended family," he says. Shaun, who asked us not to use his real name, found himself in a vicious web of lies when he tried to date a girl his parents disapproved of. "People think they're much better than detecting lies than they really are, and think they're much better at detecting lies from people they know well but that doesn't seem to be the case either, so common sense doesn't take you very far in the world of deception." Shaun's story "For example, almost everywhere people say liars won't look you in the eye but there is nothing to support that." "What I think is most interesting about deception is that almost all popular beliefs seem to be wrong," he says. In the 18-44 age bracket, 45 per cent of the respondents lied one to five times a day, while 9 per cent lied more than five times a day. In his studies, he found 59 per cent of people aged 13-17 told one to five lies a day and 15 per cent lied more than fives times a day. He also says teenagers tell almost the same number of lies as adults. He's come up with the four main reasons why people lie: to cover up a mistake or transgression such as cheating, for financial gain, for personal gain or to get out of situations. Researching the reasons humans lie has almost become an obsession for distinguished professor Tim Levine from Alabama University in Birmingham who has studied deception for 20 years. ![]() My old band manager told everyone he knew that he had something like 7 PhDs, knew 40 different languages and that he knew how to compose orchestral arrangements.He said he'd lived in London for a year after high school and gave me detailed stories of what he did while he was there. My ex-boyfriend lied about where he worked, his education, his car and his house.A family friend of ours faked a pregnancy - she said she was having twins and she ended up being "pregnant" for about 50 weeks.I've caught my sister out pretending to have cancer. ![]() There were definitely a few elements of social media that helped in catching him out such as timestamps on messages or if he said he was somewhere but Facebook said otherwise.
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