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In my opinion, I think that lies is something that is bad morally speaking, but it is a necessary evil, I think we have all told lies, for whatever reason, of course there are some that are worse than others, but none of them Being a lie, then, I think that from time to time lies are a good thing, it depends on the clear situation, but the reality is that no matter how bad it sounds, there are times when a pious lie is better than reality.

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Brain is better adapted:
- obey at the expense of our pleasure; understand the order despite our wishes.
- A slight lie, the brain forgets and attenuates it.
A lie of great content or on which depends status, economy, working conditions or interpersonal relationships:
- causes the brain to elaborate memory relationships and logical responses, for which, sometimes "lapses" are generated, which are the moments of the greatest analysis of the information.
Telling a lie generates an immediate physiological body response from the 3.5 seconds we say it, which translates into some changes:
- There is a slight sweating on the forehead and above the upper lip
- body perspiration increases
- the heart rate accelerates
- breathing becomes deep and fast
- vascular activation can make change the skin coloring of the face
- There is an increase in the levels of glucose and free fatty acids
- blood pressure increases
- the production of saliva decreases
All this depends directly on the release of adrenaline by the medulla of the adrenal gland as a result of its activation by the central nervous system

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It's unnerving as the lies manipulate your brain

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see my video of lies in relationships is good

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brothers read my facts about the lies

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Lying can have a social content, saying a lie has as an initial objective:
- Get
- promote
- Acquire comfort conditions
- feeding
- associated with sexuality
- of protection
- Pleasure
In other words, the process has an ontogenetic factor.
- The appearance of language, as phylogenetic gain, made the understanding and analysis of oral and written language responsible for obtaining advantages to maintain the species.
- There is evidence of lies in animals, which are not have the same meanings and elaboration as that of humans, however, deception is a resource used by some mammals to achieve objectives.

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In lying, the volume of blood arrival increases to:
- the ventrolateral pre frontal cortex
- posterior medial front
- frontal orbit
- lateral back
- cingulate twist
- temporal cortex
- part of the limbic system
- especially the ventral tegmental area
- nucleus accumbens
- and the cerebral amygdala
So to say and sustain a lie are based on an increase in the energy expenditure of glucose and oxygen by neurons.
The regions of the brain involved in lying are the same as those involved in emotions, in performing antisocial behaviors and in generating addictions.
The brain can:
- involve false contents, say them and keep them
- over time they can desensitize or diminish their affective-behavioral content
- adapt to losing the limits of saying them to obtain rewards or
- feel the need to say more to generate emotion and pleasure.

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A lie: it is the manifestation contrary to what is known, believed or thought.
- A child tells a lie every 90 minutes
- According to a study from the University of California: adults say 1 lie every 8 minutes
And that the professions that most lie are those that have more social contact:
- Doctors and their secretaries
- Sellers
- Politicians
- Lawyers
- Religious
- Judges
- Merchants
- trade unionists
- policemen
1 in 4 people lies in a job interview
From the point of view of the neurosciences it indicates that the fact of thinking or knowing the content of an idea involves several areas of the brain activated in series and in parallel, which are expressed through:
- The conduct
- information analysis
- the memory
- the projection
Lying, makes several brain areas are activated by increasing your metabolism between 15 to 20% during the process of elaborating, saying and maintaining a lie

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also in relationships lies

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friends, remember that lying makes you distrust yoursef.

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friends, remember that lying makes you distrust yoursef.

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By mauricio 😉

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brothers the lies are not good and they hurt you. By mauricio 😉

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brothers the lies are not good and they hurt you. By mauricio 😉

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read the, pinocho story.It's very funny. By mauricio Salgado

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read the, pinocho story.It's very funny. By mauricio Salgado

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Telling lies hurt your health.    Telling the truth improves physical and mental health, according to a study published in the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. The study, conducted by the University of Notre Dame, in the United States, shows that people who reduced the number of lies during ten weeks had a significant improvement in their physical and mental health.

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*Curious fact.*                                                           When a person lies, the temperature of their nose is altered

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*Curious fact.*                                                           When a person lies, the temperature of their nose is altered

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When a person lies, the "Pinocchio effect" occurs: the temperature of his nose can increase or decrease. There are also changes in the temperature of the orbital muscle, according to a study by the University of Granada, Spain.

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 ¡Curious fact!                                                   Liar people have more white matter in their brain.

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 ¡Curious fact!                                                   Liar people have more white matter in their brain.

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A team of researchers from the University of Southern California, USA, found that the structure of the brain of compulsive liars is different from the structure of the brains of honest people. Scientists have found that compulsive liars have a greater amount of white matter in the frontal lobe of the brain, around 22% more.

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To more lies, more white substance: A team of researchers from the University of Southern California (USA) discovered a few years ago that the structure of the brain of compulsive liars is different from that of the honest. Specifically, US researchers have found that compulsive liars have more white substance than gray matter in the frontal lobe of the brain, around 22% more. In other words, the more 'wired' a subject has the greater prefrontal lobe is the ease it has to lie, as disclosed in The British Journal of Psychiatry.Changes in temperature in the face: When a person lies a 'Pinocchio effect' occurs, due to which the temperature of the tip of his nose increases or decreases. It also ascends its body temperature in the area of ​​the orbital muscle, in the inner corner of the eye, according to a research carried out by the University of Granda with the help of thermography, a technique based on the detection of body temperature. When do we say hoaxes? According to a paper released in Psychological Science, people are more predisposed to lie when they act very quickly and with little time. When they have more time to reflect, however, it greatly restricts the amount of lies in their discourse and refuses to deceive. As the authors conclude, it is best not to pressure a person we want to be sincere. Si The eyes do deceive: Although there is the widespread belief that the movement of a person's eyes can reveal if he is lying, and in particular that the movement of the eyes to the right while communicating indicates a lack of honesty, a published study Little in PLoS ONE reveals that this idea is unfounded. According to Caroline Watt of the University of Edinburgh, the idea is unfounded and has been denied by her experiments.

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- I would love to be a father to a real boy like Pinocchio- he wished.

That night, the blue fairy, who knew Geppetto was a good man, cost a magic spell over Pinocchio. The very next day, Gappetto awake and was very happy to find that Pinocchio could walk, sit and talk like a real boy.

Geppetto wanted to send Pinocchio to school. He sold his only coat for a spelling book.

- Now you can go to school like a real boy -s aid Gappetto as we waved goodbye to Pinocchio.

On the way to school, Pinocchio stopped to wacth a puppet show in a town.

- How would you like to join my puppet show? - asked the evil puppet master.

Pinocchio happily agreed. He was locked inside the evil puppet master’s caravan. He wished he was safe with Geppetto. The blue fairy suddenly appeared. She had heard Pinocchio’s wish and set him free. Pinocchio is happy to be free.

- I’m going straight to school- he said.

But he met an evil fox who told him all about  a wonderful place called fun island. Pinocchio forgot all about school and gave the fox his spelling book in return for a ticket to Fun island.

- Where are you going, Pinocchio?- asked the b fairy.

- I’m on the way to school - lied Pinocchio.

La nariz de Pinocho creció muy, muy larga. Deseó no haber dicho una mentira. El hada llamó a un pájaro para picotear su larga nariz porque Pinocho estaba muy arrepentido. Pinocho prometió nunca volver a ser travieso y fue directo a la escuela.

En la escuela, Pinocho le contó a su amigo todo sobre la isla divertida. Su amigo quería ir con él. Pinocho y él subieron apresuradamente a bordo de un barco que se dirigía a Fun Island. En la isla no sabían que los niños pequeños se convirtieron en burros y se utilizaron para un trabajo muy duro.

Pinocchio cried and wished he hadn’t come the island. He also wished didn’t look like a silly donkey. The blue fairy had heard his wish and with a wave of her magic wand his donkey ears and tail disappeared. Pinocchio sad on the shore, sadly looking out to the sea. He wondered if he would ever see Geppetto again.

Suddenly, he saw Geppetto who had sailed out to the sea in search of Pinocchio. Geppetto didn’t see the huge whale behind him. The whale swallowed Geppetto and his boat. Pinocchio knew he had to save Geppetto. He jumped into the water and swam with all his might. As he got closer, the whale open  his mouth and Pinocchio swam right in. Deep inside the whale’s belly, Pinocchio and Geppetto hugged each other, happy to be together again.

- We must find a way out- said Geppetto - we will make a fire from the wood of my boat.

The smoke made the whale sneeze. They shot out of the whale’s mouth and back into the sea. Pinocchio and Geppetto swam safely to shore. They were both tired. They laid on the sand and fell asleep. When Geppetto awoke, he saw that the blue fairy, as a reward for being so brave, had turned Pinocchio into a real boy.

- At last my wish has come true!- cried Geppetto.

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The mind is a wonderful thing. It's also a complete liar that constantly tries to convince us not to take actions we know are good for us, and stops many great changes in our lives.

Scumbag mind.

I've had to learn to watch these rationalizations and excuses very carefully, in order to make the changes I've made in my life: a healthier diet, regular exercise, meditation, minimalism, writing daily, getting out of debt, quitting smoking, and so on.

If I hadn't learned these excuses, and how to counter them, I would never have stuck to these changes. In fact, I failed many times before 2005 (when I started changing my life), because these excuses had complete power over me.

Let's expose the cowardly mind's excuses and rationalizations once and for all.

First, the main principle: the mind wants comfort, and is afraid of discomfort and change. The mind is used to its comfort cocoon, and anytime we try to push beyond that comfort zone very far or for very long, the mind tries desperately to get back into the cocoon. At any cost, including our long-term health and happiness.

OK, with that in mind, let's go into the excuses:

1. I can't do it. It seems too hard, so we think we can't stick to the change. We don't believe in ourselves. This can be countered from the fact that many other people no more capable than us have done it. For example, Oprah ran a marathon a little before I started training for my first marathon, and so I told myself, "If Oprah can do it, so can I!" I was right.

2. He/she can do it, but that doesn't apply to me. Just because someone else can do it, doesn't mean we can, right? We look for reasons they can do it but we can't - maybe he can be a minimalist because he has no kids, or is a freelancer rather than someone with a real job. Maybe she's way, way fitter than I am, so she can run a marathon. Maybe she doesn't have all the obligations I have, or has a supportive spouse, or doesn't have a crippling health condition. OK, fine, it's easy to find excuses: but look at all the other people who have worse obstacles than you who've done it. I have 6 kids and still managed to change a lot of things in my life. Stories abound of people with disabilities or illnesses who overcame their obstacles to achieve amazing things. Your obstacles can be overcome.

3. I need my ___. Fill in the blank: I need my coffee, my cheese, my soda, my TV shows, my car, my shoe collection ... these are things we convince ourselves we can't live without, so we can't make a change like becoming vegan or eating healthier or unschooling our kids or simplifying our lives or going car-free. And I've made these excuses myself, but they all turned out to be lies. I didn't need any of that. The only things you really need are basic food, water, clothing, shelter, and other people for social needs. Everything else is not a real need.

4. Life is meant to be enjoyed. Sure, I agree with this statement (as many of us would) but the problem is this is used to justify all kinds of crappy behavior. Might as well scarf down those Doritos and Twinkies, because hey, life is meant to be enjoyed, right? No. You can do without junk food and still enjoy life. You can exercise and enjoy it. You can give up pretty much anything and still enjoy life, if you learn to see almost any activity as enjoyable.

5. I need comfort. This might also be true, but we can push ourselves into more discomfort than we let ourselves believe. We can be a bit cold, instead of needing to be at the perfect comfortable temperature. We can do hard exercise, instead of needing to lay around on the couch. We can write that thing we've been procrastinating on - it might be hard, but we can push through that. When our minds seek comfort, don't let them run - push a little bit outside the comfort zone, and begin to be OK with a bit of discomfort.

6. I don't know how. This is also true, but you can learn. Start with a little at a time, and learn how to deal with this new change. Do some research online. Watch some videos. Ask people online how they dealt with it. This is easily overcome with a little effort and practice. In fact, if you do it now, and learn a little at a time, then you'll be able to do away with this pesky excuse.

7. I can do it later. Sure, you can always do it later ... but your later self will also feel the same way. Why should the later self be more disciplined than your current self? In fact, because you're allowing yourself to slide now, you're building a habit of procrastination and actually making is less likely that your future self will be more disciplined. Instead, do it now, unless there's something more important that you need to do ... don't let yourself slide just because you don't feel like it.

8. One time won't hurt. This is so tempting, because it's kind of true - one time won't hurt. Assuming, that is, that it's only one time. One bite of chocolate cake, one missed workout, one time procrastinating instead of writing. Unfortunately, it's never actually just one time. One time means your brain now knows it can get away with this excuse, and the next "one time" leads to another, until you're not actually sticking to something. Make a rule: never ever believe the "one time" excuse. I did this with smoking ("Not One Puff Ever") and it worked. If you're going to allow yourself a bite or two of chocolate cake, decide beforehand and build it into your plan ("I will allow myself a fist-sized serving of sweets once every weekend") and stick to that plan, rather than deciding on the fly, when your resistance is weak.

9. I don't feel like it. Well, true. You don't feel like working hard. Who does? Letting the rule of "I'll do it when feel like it" dictate your life means you'll never write that book, never build that business, never create anything great, never have healthy habits. Create a plan that's doable, and execute it. When the rationalizations like this come up, don't believe them. Everyone is capable of doing a hard workout even when they're not in the mood. Everyone can overcome their internal resistance.

10. I'm tired. Yep, me too. I still did my heavy squat workout today. There is truth to needing rest, and resting when you need it (listen to your body) but this is usually the mind trying to weasel out of something uncomfortable. There's a difference between being exhausted and needing some rest, and being the little tired we all feel every afternoon. Push through the latter.

11. I deserve a reward/break. We all deserve that tasty treat, or a day off. I'm not saying you shouldn't give yourself a reward or break. But if you make this rationalization your rule, you'll always be on a break. You'll always be giving yourself rewards, and never sticking to the original plan. Here's what I do instead: I see sticking to my plan as the reward itself. Going on a run isn't the thing I have to get through to get a reward - the run is the reward.

12. Wouldn't it be nice to stop? This again is our mind wanting to run from discomfort, and of course it's true - it would be nice to stop if you're pushing into a discomfort zone for too long. The thing is, the implication is that it would be better to stop, because it would be nice ... but that's a lie. It would be easier to stop, but often it's better to continue pushing. This excuse almost beat me when I tried to run my 50-mile ultramarathon last December, because honestly it would have been much nicer to stop and not finish the race, especially in the last 10 miles or so. I pushed through, and found out I was tougher than I thought.

13. The result you're going for isn't important. If you're trying to run a marathon, this is phrased like, "It's not that important that I finish this". I've used this excuse for learning languages (it doesn't matter if I learn this) or programming or any number of things I wanted to learn. I've used it for writing and exercise and eating healthy food. And while the result might not be that important, the truth is that the process is very important. If you stick with a process that will be better for you in the long run, then you will be better off. But if you let yourself go just because you are uncomfortable and at this moment care more for your comfort than the goal you set out for, you'll have lots of problems. The goal isn't important, but learning to stick to things when you're uncomfortable is extremely important.

14. I'm afraid. Now, this is the most honest excuse there is - most of us don't want to admit we're afraid to pursue something difficult. But it's also a weaselly way out of discomfort - just because you're afraid doesn't mean you can't do something. You can. I've done tons of things I'm afraid of - mostly creating things that I was worried I'd fail at. And while the fear sometimes came true - I didn't do too well sometimes - the act of pushing through the fear was incredibly important and I learned a lot each time.

I've used all of these excuses hundreds of times each, so don't think I've overcome them all. And you can use them in the future too. There's nothing wrong with giving in sometimes.

The key is to learn whether they're true, and see your pattern. Here's what I've done:

1. Notice the excuse. It has way more power if it works on you in the background.

2. Try to have an answer for the excuse beforehand - anticipate it.

3. If you give in, that's OK, but recognize that you're giving in to a lame excuse. Be aware of what you're doing.

4. After giving in, see what the results are. Are you happier? Is your life better? Was it worth it giving in to discomfort?

5. Learn from those results. If you pushed through and are happy about it, remember that. If you gave in to excuses, and didn't like the result, remember that.

If you consciously practice this process, you'll get better at recognizing and not believing these lies. And then, bam, you've got your mind working for you instead of against you.

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The mind is a wonderful thing. It's also a complete liar that constantly tries to convince us not to take actions we know are good for us, and stops many great changes in our lives. Scumbag mind.

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To more lies, more white substance. A team of researchers from the University of Southern California (USA) discovered a few years ago that the structure of the brain of compulsive liars is different from that of the honest.Changes in temperature on the face. When a person lies a 'Pinocchio effect' occurs, due to which the temperature of the tip of his nose increases or decreases. It also ascends its body temperature in the area of ​​the orbital muscle, in the inner corner of the eye, according to a research carried out by the University of Granda with the help of thermography, a technique based on the detection of body temperature. When do we say hoaxes? According to a paper released in Psychological Science, people are more predisposed to lie when they act very quickly and with little time. When they have more time to reflect, however, it greatly restricts the amount of lies in their discourse and refuses to deceive. As the authors conclude, it is best not to pressure a person we want to be sincere.The eyes do deceive. Although there is the widespread belief that the movement of a person's eyes can reveal if he is lying, and in particular that the movement of the eyes to the right while communicating indicates a lack of honesty, a study published recently in PLoS ONE reveals that this idea is unfounded. According to Caroline Watt of the University of Edinburgh, the idea is unfounded and has been denied by her experiments.Insane lies Telling the truth improves the physical and mental health of people, according to a study entitled "Science of Honesty" and made known at the last annual convention of the American Psychological Association. On average, an American is estimated to lie 11 times each week. In the experiments with more than a hundred people, Antita E. Kelly and her colleagues at the University of Notre Dame found that if they were asked to reduce the number of lies, ten weeks after their physical and mental health had improved markedly.The stomach detects lies. Changes in gastric physiology could provide a better method than classical polygraphs to distinguish who is lying from who is telling the truth, according to a University of Texas study that has identified a direct link between the lying actor and increased arrhythmias. gastric The scientists simultaneously used electrocardiograms (for the heart) and electrogastrograms (for the stomach).

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To more lies, more white substance. A team of researchers from the University of Southern California (USA) discovered a few years ago that the structure of the brain of compulsive liars is different from that of the honest.Changes in temperature on the face. When a person lies a 'Pinocchio effect' occurs, due to which the temperature of the tip of his nose increases or decreases. It also ascends its body temperature in the area of ​​the orbital muscle, in the inner corner of the eye, according to a research carried out by the University of Granda with the help of thermography, a technique based on the detection of body temperature. When do we say hoaxes? According to a paper released in Psychological Science, people are more predisposed to lie when they act very quickly and with little time. When they have more time to reflect, however, it greatly restricts the amount of lies in their discourse and refuses to deceive. As the authors conclude, it is best not to pressure a person we want to be sincere.The eyes do deceive. Although there is the widespread belief that the movement of a person's eyes can reveal if he is lying, and in particular that the movement of the eyes to the right while communicating indicates a lack of honesty, a study published recently in PLoS ONE reveals that this idea is unfounded. According to Caroline Watt of the University of Edinburgh, the idea is unfounded and has been denied by her experiments.Insane lies Telling the truth improves the physical and mental health of people, according to a study entitled "Science of Honesty" and made known at the last annual convention of the American Psychological Association. On average, an American is estimated to lie 11 times each week. In the experiments with more than a hundred people, Antita E. Kelly and her colleagues at the University of Notre Dame found that if they were asked to reduce the number of lies, ten weeks after their physical and mental health had improved markedly.The stomach detects lies. Changes in gastric physiology could provide a better method than classical polygraphs to distinguish who is lying from who is telling the truth, according to a University of Texas study that has identified a direct link between the lying actor and increased arrhythmias. gastric The scientists simultaneously used electrocardiograms (for the heart) and electrogastrograms (for the stomach).

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Lies are an essential part of us can not survive without the lies. Studies have proven that in a conversation we can not spend 5 minutes without lying. He provided an article.

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You're supposed to go to a business meeting tonight, but you've got a hot date you would rather keep, so how are you most likely to lie to your boss about why you won't be at the meeting?

In a face to face conversation? Or on the telephone? Or by e-mail where the boss can't see you, or hear the inflections in your voice, or even be certain it's really you who's spouting that fib?

The weapon of choice, it turns out, is the telephone. People lie more often over the telephone than in any other form of communication, according to new research out of Cornell University. And if you fire off an e-mail to the boss, you're probably going to tell her you never wanted to go to that boring meeting anyway, because you're far more likely to tell the truth in an e-mail than in a face to face meeting, or over the phone, or through instant messaging.

Psychologist Jeff Hancock, an assistant professor of communications at Cornell, has been studying how and why we lie for some time now, and his research supports a growing body of evidence showing that we humans lie all the time. But that's not necessarily cause for alarm.

Little White Lies

"Lies aren't all bad," Hancock says. "A lot of the time they are benign, and a lot of the time they are beneficial," to someone else if not ourselves.

Most often, we lie because it just makes our lives easier, according to Brandeis University's Leonard Saxe, who notes that society has conditioned us to shade the truth.

If you're late for work, and you tell the boss you overslept, you're probably going to get into more trouble that if you tell a lie, blaming your tardiness on heavy traffic.

So we do it all the time. Various studies show at least a fourth of our daily interactions with others involve lying, usually about something rather minor. Most often, we lie to avoid conflict, or to spare someone else's feelings.

Deception Device of Choice

But Hancock and two of his graduate students, Jennifer Thom-Santelli and Thompson Ritchie, set out to identify the form of communication that lends itself best to lying. They asked 30 students to keep track of their social communications for seven days, noting when they lied, and how the lie was transmitted. The reports were submitted anonymously to reduce the chance that the participants would lie about their lying in an effort to protect their own images.

And they fessed up to lying about 1.6 times per day, on average, during an average of 6.11 social communications. So they fibbed about a fourth of the time.

The clear winner in the tally was the telephone, which was involved in 37 percent of the deception. Face-to-face conversations included lies 27 percent of the time, and instant messages came in at 21 percent.

But e-mail turned out to be a model of integrity, accounting for only 14 percent of the lies.

Evading Evidence

That may be a bit surprising, but Hancock says it shouldn't be. It's easier to lie over the telephone because the other person can't see our expressions, or know we are dressed for the beach instead of the office. And most importantly, the conversation is unlikely to be recorded.

E-mail, by contrast, leaves a paper trail, Hancock says.

"It's recordable, whereas phone and face to face conversations aren't [usually,]" he notes. "It can also be forwarded very easily, along with your credibility, and that would argue against lying in e-mail."

Of course, it's also easy to disguise your identity in e-mail, but college students who are communicating with acquaintances usually have no reason to do that.

Sex, Lies and Videotape

Incidently, college students are not necessarily like all the rest of us, being subjected to social tortures like dating, so they may be inclined to lie a bit more. Another study by Hancock supports that, showing that older persons also lie often, and they do it most often over the phone, but less frequently than college students.

Even after leaving college and assuming more routine lives, we continue to lie frequently, according to various studies.

Psychologist Robert Feldman of the University of Massachusetts conducted one study in which 60 percent of the participants lied, usually two or three times, during a 10 minute conversation. What they didn't know was that their lies were being captured by a hidden video camera.

Interestingly, that study showed no difference between men and women in the frequency of lying, but it did find a difference in subject matter.

"Women were more likely to lie to make the person they were talking to feel good, while men lied most often to make themselves look better," Feldman says.

In an earlier study, Feldman found that good liars tend to be more popular. Not only do they avoid hurting other's feelings, they have mastered certain social skills or they wouldn't be successful liars.

Long-Distance - From Fibbing Discomfort

It isn't always easy to tell a lie, which brings us back to the telephone.

"When we lie, we experience discomfort, and we do as much as we can to reduce discomfort," says Cornell's Hancock. One way to do that is to use a "more socially distant media" to transmit our untruth. That nasty device known as the telephone lends itself well to that. Nobody can see us when we tell that fib, and there's no paper trail.

It's a dream machine for everyone who, from time to time, has to tell a little white lie. Only to protect someone else, of course.

Lee Dye's column appears weekly on ABCNEWS.com. A former science writer for the Los Angeles Times, he now lives in Juneau, Alaska.

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You're supposed to go to a business meeting tonight, but you've got a hot date you would rather keep, so how are you most likely to lie to your boss about why you won't be at the meeting? In a face to face conversation? Or on the telephone?