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What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is
What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is
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2024-02-28
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What exactly is a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example,【B1】______a friend wants to borrow some money from you. You say, "I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself. "In fact, you are not short of money but your friend is in the【B2】______of not paying debts and you don’t want to【B3】______his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this really a lie?
Professor Gerald Duelist of the University of Southern California had made a【B4】______study of lying. According to him, women are better liars than men,【B5】______when telling a "white lie", such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks【B6】______. However, this is only one side of the story. Other【B7】______say that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no【B8】______of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at:【B9】______.
Research has also been done into the ways people’s behavioral changes in a number of small, apparently unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the time,
【B10】______. To the trained observer they are saying "I wish I were somewhere else now."【B11】______. One explanation of this may be that lying causes a slight increase in blood pressure. The tip of the nose is very sensitive to such changes and the increased pressure makes it itch. [br] 【B9】
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the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way
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