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[ironphoenix]

Two excellent and important articles:

Learning to Lie, an article on how, when and why children lie, and

The Rat Trap, an article on the importance of environmental factors on addiction, based on research from 30 years ago that somehow has never made it into influencing social and political perception policy in the slightest.

Comments

[gabriel-le.livejournal.com]

I grew up lying to my parents, and then started lying a lot publicly in order to tell a better story (being a performer at young age made me want to have a better and better show, =)...).

I still catch myself lying to people I don't know well, or care about, mostly to keep them out of my business - though they feel like they have a right to be there.

Just sharing, =)

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

*nod* I can identify with both of these to some degree.

People don't respond well to "I don't know or trust you well enough to answer that," do they? Argument-avoidance, social lubricant lies...

[oni-neko.livejournal.com]

Very interesting article. Reminds me of something my drama teacher once said just before we did an exercise on lying. which is that an actor is someone who is paid to lie.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Art is a lie which reveals a truth, in my view; a bit different from this kind of lie, and the opposite of the best deception: a perfectly correct statement which obscures the truth.

[oni-neko.livejournal.com]

true the act of lying is used for different purposes than an actor using it professionally. Or a politician.

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

The rat article was very thought provoking, thanks.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Did you read the comments too? One of the researchers commented.

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

Yup.

"Perhaps we could have predicted the outcome. Rat Park created new difficulties and complexities for brain researchers. This apparently blocked stimulation of their pleasure centres."

Indeed.