Tag: LYING

Share Sometimes -- sometimes, mind you -- a person can learn valuable lessons from action movies. For instance, Sam Jackson informed us back in 1998 that a student of human behavior could tell whether or not somebody was lying by how he or she moved their eyes. Apparently, we weren't the only people listening. Researchers at the University of Utah are developing what they believe is the vanguard ...

Share Not many people enjoy lying, and even fewer people enjoy admitting to it. But try as we might, most of us have had to do it at one point or another. There are several complex explanations for why humans fib, but a group of researchers recently found that our weapon of choice may play a role in altering the truth. A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that people ...

When you're trolling Facebook, how much of what you read do you actually believe? It's an important question, particularly if you're looking to develop a meaningful relationship beyond the realm of social networking. According to Wired, a new study claims that college-age people tend to tell the truth rather than lie on their social networking profiles. German psychologist Mitja Back, along ...

Wow. Things at Office Depot appear to be worse than we could have possibly thought. In fact, the alleged apparent systematic misleading of customers makes the shenanigans at BestBuy look quite tame by comparison. Laptop Mag has published a follow up to its initial report of employees being encouraged to lie to customers at Office Depot. It turns out that salespeople at other Office Depot ...