Blog 3: Free Topic
Why people lie? I like a lot the psychology, so i was reading a book called “The lucifer effect” that talks about why the people acts in an evil way, and mechanisms behind this, so I asked to myself why people lies?, and what motivates them to lie. So here are my reflections and research about this theme. We start defining what is a lie, the dictionary defines it as “ something that you say or write that is not true and you know is not true”, therefore we understand that the lies are voluntaries, conversely a person who doesn’t that he is missing the truth, is not a lie but is a mistake. There are many reasons why people lie, for example to get along with others, to avoid punishment, some lies serve only to cover other lies, to get something or to take revenge on other people. These are all motives that move us to build lies . Let's take a closer look at each of these reasons: *Lies to look good: they are those that we use to be sociall...