Why Do You Lie?
Sources Reviewed by Gabriela Pichardo on November 04, 2020 Medically Reviewed on November 04, 2020
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Pichardo on
November 04, 2020
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SOURCES:
The American Psychological Association: “The Truth About Lie Detectors (aka Polygraph Tests).”
Cambridge University Press: “Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives.”
FBI: “The Truth About Lying: What Investigators Need to Know.”
LiveScience: “Why We Lie,” “Life's Extremes: Pathological Liar vs. Straight Shooter.”
National Institutes of Health: “Telling Lies: The Irrepressible Truth?” “Prospects of functional magnetic resonance imaging as lie detector,” “Suppressing the truth as a mechanism of deception: Delta plots reveal the role of response inhibition in lying.”
Psych Central: “Pathological Lying: Symptom or Disease?”
Psychological Science: “The Morning Morality Effect
The Influence of Time of Day on Unethical Behavior.”
Psychology Today
The Royal Society Publishing: “Getting back to the rough ground: deception and ‘social living.’”
Social Psychological and Personality Science: “Not Pollyannas: Higher Generalized Trust Predicts Lie Detection Ability.”
University of Chicago: “Why and when we lie.”
University of Massachusetts Amherst: “UMass Amherst Researcher Finds Most People Lie in Everyday Conversation.”
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