The complexity of lying

If you do not consider ethical issues, to be able to lie must be a skill that is not simple at all.

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Recent research by Associate Professor Sean Lane and alumnus Kathleen Vieria has looked at two types of lies: misrepresentation and false negatives, while examining the various cognitive apparatus people use to save Keep and create them.

The misrepresentation is the deliberate whirring of the imagination, when we create the details and describe something that has never happened. It's easy to remember a false description of a lie because according to Sean Lane, we must take a lot of cognitive energy and efforts to create them. When the subjects in Lane's study were asked to recall their misrepresentations 48 hours later, most remembered very accurately. They remember what was said and what was incorrect in it.

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Liars must remember what they say and also consider how well they are. The more detailed the details are given, the more lies a person has to monitor to see how confident they are. And if the listener does not seem to receive it, the liar must adapt the story accordingly.

The Science Daily page quoted Sean Lane: "If I am going to lie to you about something that hasn't happened, there will be a lot of links going on in my mind. The process of making a lie gives descriptions and details, they also give information about the formation process'.

This is different from false negation . This type of lie denies that something has actually happened so it is often brief and therefore its perceived need is much lower. Lane's test subjects were hard to remember their false negatives after 48 hours. Sean Lane said: "In this type of lie, liars do not create details and will not remember to act because denial does not involve much awareness."

This finding is significant for the interrogation process, when suspects have to answer a series of consecutive questions. Suspects tend to forget false negatives, thus potentially contradicting themselves in the same information later. But besides, it is also related to innocent suspects. Lane's test subjects also had trouble remembering the denial they made was real or fake. This memory problem can cause catastrophe for suspects to ask for repeated repetitive honesty.

To explain, Lane cited 'illusory truth effect' . This is the view that listening to repeated fake information will make it true, simply because it is similar. This may lead to a false memory, a proven phenomenon. For example, a man who repeatedly denies his presence at the crime scene may start imagining the scene: where, how it looks, who is present . even when he was never there.

This study, published in Memory Awareness and Applied Research, opens a deeper perspective for criminal investigators about lying.