19 Feb 2004
Phone fibbing most common method for untruths

This get's filed under Humor just because it's so obvious as to defy belief that someone was paid to study it!

I wonder if the funding source considers statements like the one below from the researchers as funny as I do. I wonder if they think they got their money's worth for this study.

Why does the telephone make it easier to tell untruths? "If you called in sick to your boss, but you were dressed and ready to ski, you would succeed in lying on the phone. But if you claimed to be sick in a face-to-face conversation, but you were wearing a ski outfit, you would obviously fail in lying," Hancock observes.

(link) [Science Blog]

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