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Sometimes, it’s easier to tell a friend you like their mediocre gift or sugar-coat your feelings about their new love interest than share how you really feel.
It might not always feel great after the fact, but according to Gail Heyman, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, learning to lie is a natural part of human development.
In one 2017 study from Hangzhou Normal University and UCSD, Heyman had toddlers play a one-on-one game with an experimenter in which the toddlers hid a treat under a cup while the experimenter closed their eyes. The children were told they could keep the treat if the experimenter did not find it. When the experimenter opened their eyes, they had to look under whichever cup the kid pointed to.
“So if the child pointed to the wrong cup, then the experimenter would pick the wrong cup and then the child would win the prize instead of the experimenter,” said Heyman.
Over the ten-day experiment, most of the young children figured out how to deceive the experimenters and win the treats. Heyman’s research suggests that we learn to lie early and can do so without any special instructions. But as we get older, and our cognitive abilities expand, our fibs become more sophisticated.
Jacquelyn Johnson, a psychologist based in Los Angeles, says that many of our white lies can happen reflexively and are motivated by our desire to preserve our sense of belonging.
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Aug 25, 2023 @ 06:49:40
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