Deception Detective: How Often Do People Lie

Deception Detective How often do people lie? If someone asked you how many times a day you lie, what would you say? People most commonly say they lie two times a day, this is an understatement. In actuality people lie about seven to eight times a day. Men and women tell different kinds of lies. Men tell self oriented lies, which means they tell lies about themselves. Women tell un-oriented lies, which means they tell lies about other people, specifically lies about other women. Typically, women are better liars than men. People who are good at lying are usually caretakers, teachers, people who deal with children, people in the arts, high self monitors, people in control of their nonverbal behaviors, and people who want to learn about nonverbal behaviors. Women are most possessive of these qualities which
I asked him at the end of one of our classes if he would tell me two stories about real people and one had to be a lie or they could both be lies. He then told me a story about his sister which I filmed and it seemed to be true except for the fact that the story was a little on the strange side and I had a hard time believing that it happened and when he was telling me the story he didn’t move much which took as a cognitive theory that maybe he was trying so hard to think of a story that he forget to act natural. When I watched the video over again I focused on his voice and if I heard any drag vowels or varying pitch and I didn’t hear anything. The next story he told me was one about his brother. When I looked back at the film I didn’t notice any drag vowels or varying pitch and he seemed to act naturally when he told me his story. I believe this story is true and the first story was a lie. After writing this I asked Jacob which story was true and which was a lie or if they were both lies. He told me the first story was true and the second story was a