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What's more, a lot of the time, we don't want to detect lies in other people. We are unwilling to put forward the cognitive effort to suspect the veracity of statements, and we aren't motivated to question people when they tell us things we want to hear. When we ask someone, "How are you doing?" and they say, "Fine," we really don't want to know what their aches and pains are. So we take "Fine" at face value. (Read a TIME story on ground rules for telling lies...
...social interactions go more smoothly, lying is O.K. But there is a cost to even seemingly benign lies. If people are always telling you that you look terrific and you did a great job on that presentation, there's no way to have an accurate understanding of yourself. Lies put a smudge on an interaction, and if it's easy to lie to people in minor ways, it becomes easier to lie in bigger ways...
Have you gotten to meet him? Yeah, he interviewed me. It was very fun. He was nice. He was asking me questions like, "What was it like with the President? How could I get in touch with him? And can you put in a good word...
What's your favorite subject in school? I like reading, math and science. I like science most because you get to blow up stuff. We put baking soda in a cup with some vinegar and it started bubbling up. I also like the Fourth of July because you get to blow up firecrackers...
...believe how crazy I was. I was hooked on him. I saw his movie Dil to Pagal Hai every week. I put up his posters on my ceiling, on the walls, in my cupboard." - Aida Wilson, a Singaporean woman who named her first child Shah Rukh in Khan's honor (The Straits Times...