Several experiments have demonstrated that our gut instincts seem to be
better than our reasoning mind at discerning truths from lies.
In a study, the participants who had to make snap judgments about a
person’s trustworthiness were more accurate than the ones who took their time
to think. These results provide strong evidence for the idea that although
humans cannot consciously discriminate liars from truth tellers, they do have a
sense, on unconscious level, of when someone is lying.
The ability to know when someone is lying is an evolutionarily
advantageous one.
Humans learned to make up fake stories shortly after we began to use
language. Since then, our success and even survival have hinged largely on
whether or not we could recognize those stories as fake.
Most of our intuitions about the world are wrong but this may be one
case where our first impression is something we should pay attention to.
Ask your gut…
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