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Friday 26 February 2010

Lecture 4 on lying.


Everyone lies. Lying happens every day. There are two types of lies, for example white lies, which do little or no harm or black lies, which can do harm to the deceiver or the deceived when the truth comes out.
Sometimes we can tell when people are lying and sometimes we can’t. There are different ways to find out if someone is lying for example: see if the person is avoiding eye contact. Is the person making eye contact when they are talking to you? Or are their eyes roaming around when they are talking to you and not really focused on yours. Check to see if they are fidgeting a lot for example are they moving around a lot like in a bit of a panic? The person might be moving their hands a lot when they are moving around a lot. Or maybe you might try to see if the person’s story adds up for example remembering what they said. I would probably wait about two weeks and ask them the story again and see if the story fits with what they were saying before. People can also take a lie detector test to see if they are lying. http://www.firehow.com/200905171216/how-find-out-if-they-are-lying.html

A clip was shown in the lecture from Red dwarf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRzNuIvpMUc the character Lister was trying to teach Kryten how to lie and go against his robotic programming. In the video clip Lister says that “lying is vital part of our psychological defence system”.
In my opinion i think when it comes to men and women i don’t think one sex can lie more than the other. I think everyone is the same. A man can lie and so can women.

Sometimes people find themselves in a situation where they are forced to lie for the sake of protecting somebody else for example lying for your best friend. This might mean telling a lie to corroborate the person’s story “yes she slept over my house last night”. Sometimes people take responsibility for something they did not do so that the other person cannot get punished. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A996942
Coming to a conclusion i think that if people did not lie and the world was full of people telling the truth things will still be the same because people will still be getting hurt.

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