How to tell if someone is lying to you, according to researchers

Get the Better newsletter. SUBSCRIBE If you claim that you never lie, well, you’re a liar. Those little white lies are slipping out more often than you realize: One study found that Americans, on average, tell about 11 lies per week. Other research shows that number is on the conservative side. A study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology found that 60 percent of people can’t go 10 minutes without lying at least once. And it gets worse: Those that did lie actually told an average of three lies during that short conversation. Why do we do it? In surveying more than 100 psychology graduate students currently or previously in therapy, Leslie Martin, PhD, of Wake Forest University’s counseling center, found that of the 37 percent who reported lying, most did so “to protect themselves in some way — mostly to avoid shame or embarrassment, to avoid painful emotions and to avoid being judged.” 60 percent of people can’t go 10 minutes without lying at least once. You know, like when you’re too tired to go to brunch so you claim you have a stomach bug or you tell your boss you had train trouble when… Read full this story

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