Jeff Hancock talks about how lying in society is changing. The first thing he does is ask the crowd if they had lied today, hearing this made me think back to every little lie I told that day. About 2/3s of the audience admitted to lying, the other 1/3 lied about not lying. Hancock says that lying is part of being human, and most humans lie about 1 to 3 times a day.
Three new types of lies he talks about are butler lies, sock puppet, and Chinese water army lies. A butler lie is used to protect a relationship, text messages such as "I'm on my way" when your still in bed and "my battery was dead" when you just didn't feel like answering are examples of of this. A sock puppet lie is to make your self look better, such as on online dating men will round there height up to make themselves look taller. Finally there the Chinese water army lies, which are propaganda and fake reviews.
Hancock says as humans we are really bad at dedicated lies, but there are some ways and there are some ways to tell such as dilating pupils, change in body movements, and the persons pitch goes higher. He concludes by telling now in the digital age all lies we tell online are now on a permanent record, which thoroughly scares me.
Three new types of lies he talks about are butler lies, sock puppet, and Chinese water army lies. A butler lie is used to protect a relationship, text messages such as "I'm on my way" when your still in bed and "my battery was dead" when you just didn't feel like answering are examples of of this. A sock puppet lie is to make your self look better, such as on online dating men will round there height up to make themselves look taller. Finally there the Chinese water army lies, which are propaganda and fake reviews.
Hancock says as humans we are really bad at dedicated lies, but there are some ways and there are some ways to tell such as dilating pupils, change in body movements, and the persons pitch goes higher. He concludes by telling now in the digital age all lies we tell online are now on a permanent record, which thoroughly scares me.