cyborg
01-29-2008, 11:12 AM
The results, published in "The Social Psychology of Good and Evil," showed that college students lied at least once to 38 percent of the people they interacted with. Community members lied to 30 percent.
DePaulo also found that some types of people are more likely to lie:
Manipulative people will lie to get what they want.
People-pleasers tend to say what the other person wants to hear.
Extroverts "are more tuned into others, so they notice what other people want to hear, or they want to impress them," DePaulo says.
"In the abstract, it's very easy to say, 'Oh, we value honesty, and you should never lie,'" says DePaulo. But "sometimes in our real lives, our valuing of honesty clashes with something else we also value, like wanting to be gracious or kind or compassionate."
http://www.nazi.org/nazi/news/archives/00001118.html
Individual hurt feelings are karmic, visceral and intrinsic. The truth transcends the temporal and material. It is a civilization in decline whos true loyalty is to the former, paying mere lip service to the latter.
DePaulo also found that some types of people are more likely to lie:
Manipulative people will lie to get what they want.
People-pleasers tend to say what the other person wants to hear.
Extroverts "are more tuned into others, so they notice what other people want to hear, or they want to impress them," DePaulo says.
"In the abstract, it's very easy to say, 'Oh, we value honesty, and you should never lie,'" says DePaulo. But "sometimes in our real lives, our valuing of honesty clashes with something else we also value, like wanting to be gracious or kind or compassionate."
http://www.nazi.org/nazi/news/archives/00001118.html
Individual hurt feelings are karmic, visceral and intrinsic. The truth transcends the temporal and material. It is a civilization in decline whos true loyalty is to the former, paying mere lip service to the latter.