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Why we’re so bad at spotting lies – most of us only perform slightly better than chance

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par Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University

You don’t have to be in the middle of an election campaign to be concerned about your ability to spot a lie. Psychology research suggests people lie at least once a day.

A 2006 review of 206 papers found that we are little better then chance at guessing whether something is a lie or not, 54% to be exact.

Some lies are told to make others feel better. I wouldn’t mind if someone wanted to tell me, “You’re such…

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