We've mentioned a few ways to detect liars, but Pamela Meyer has
discovered just about all of them. She's taken a look at the
most common behaviors of liars, scientifically, and shares her
expertise on how to detect them. Meyer believes that lying is
often a cooperative act. We willingly let others deceive us
because we want to avoid conflict. We may tell each other an
email didn't receive a response because it ended up in the spam
folder or that dinner was delicious (or at least tolerable).
This is okay to some extent because we're all okay with it, but
studies show that you may be lied to anywhere from 10 to 200
times per day. Many of those are white lies, but studies have
also discovered that strangers lie three times within the first
ten minutes of meeting each other. Meyer sees lying as what we
do to bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. When we want
something to be true, we lie so that it at least appears to be
true in the hopes that we may be able to make it that way before
any truth is uncovered