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13 October 2011
How to spot a liar: Pamela Meyer on TED.com
On any given day we’re lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter-intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting, shows the manners and “hotspots” used by those trained to recognize deception — and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2011, July 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duration: 10:52.)
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Very interesting, cool and slightly mischievous in parts, probably too short to follow up with what I would like to see next, chapters on: “lying electronically”, “passive lying” (lying by omissions), and the mandatory “now what? I see Cheney/ Obama/ Eduards/ etcetcetc/ basically all the politicians lie, now what?”
Also, there is a slight undertone of “lying is inherently bad”. Not sure I would like to live in a world without lies (was there a movie?). And, finally, lying is considered a “cultural” trait? When babies “lie” immediately after being born (kind of), I would start looking into genetics, not into “culture”, from the evolutionary standpoint this thing helped us surviving (and still does, “yes honey, that blouse looks awesome on you”), so hard to believe it should be “fixed”.
I’ll definitely invest in the book ;) (wink-wink, shrug shoulders, smug smile :) )