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Sometimes it's hard to lie. Let's say that a candidate for a job has done something outright stupid in her previous job, and suddenly, unexpectedly for her, a member of the selection committee mentions this nonsense at the interview. When applying for a job, the applicant does not want to admit her mistake and must immediately come up with a fabricated but plausible explanation. It's not easy. She will probably have to think hard, which can increase the number of speech errors and slow down the pace of speech.
However, liars are not always caught off guard. They often know what questions to expect, so they can prepare and come up with convincing and plausible answers. In particular, many guilty suspects are aware of the possibility of asking the police what they were doing on the day the crime occurred. Obviously, lying is not difficult in this situation. When a police officer asks him about his occupation at the time of the crime, a well-trained suspect will simply give a pre-prepared answer.
There are two plausible explanations for these results. First, in this study, liars may have had an easier task than truth-tellers. The liars could just repeat what they were told, and the truthful answer had to think about the movie and formulate the answer. As already mentioned, the easier the task — the fewer speech errors. Secondly, the decrease in the number of errors in speech may be due to the presence of a tendency for liars to over-control their behavior.
Sometimes a liar doesn't need to come up with an answer, but only needs to hide some information. When a customs officer asks smugglers about the contents of their bags, they only need to withhold some information, that is, not mention the contraband. Some of Fry's work has explored how liars behave in such situations. In these studies, the"liar" participants had to deny that they had headphones that they actually had. In other words, their goal was to hide some information. Their responses were compared to those who didn't actually have headphones.
Summarizing the above, the results of research have shown that logically more complex lies lead to an increase in speech errors and to a slowdown in the pace of speech. A" light " lie (well-prepared or simply silent) is not accompanied by such patterns, and may even give the opposite picture-reducing the number of speech errors and speeding up speech. Scientists have studied in more detail the indirect effect of logical complexity of lying on the occurrence of speech stutters (Vrij & Heaven, 1999).
How do liars behave when they have had the opportunity to plan their lies?
Sometimes it's hard to lie. Let's say that a candidate for a job has done something outright stupid in her previous job, and suddenly, unexpectedly for her, a member of the selection committee mentions this nonsense at the interview. When applying for a job, the applicant does not want to admit her mistake and must immediately come up with a fabricated but plausible explanation. It's not easy. She will probably have to think hard, which can increase the number of speech errors and slow down the pace of speech.
However, liars are not always caught off guard. They often know what questions to expect, so they can prepare and come up with convincing and plausible answers. In particular, many guilty suspects are aware of the possibility of asking the police what they were doing on the day the crime occurred. Obviously, lying is not difficult in this situation. When a police officer asks him about his occupation at the time of the crime, a well-trained suspect will simply give a pre-prepared answer.
There are two plausible explanations for these results. First, in this study, liars may have had an easier task than truth-tellers. The liars could just repeat what they were told, and the truthful answer had to think about the movie and formulate the answer. As already mentioned, the easier the task — the fewer speech errors. Secondly, the decrease in the number of errors in speech may be due to the presence of a tendency for liars to over-control their behavior.
Sometimes a liar doesn't need to come up with an answer, but only needs to hide some information. When a customs officer asks smugglers about the contents of their bags, they only need to withhold some information, that is, not mention the contraband. Some of Fry's work has explored how liars behave in such situations. In these studies, the"liar" participants had to deny that they had headphones that they actually had. In other words, their goal was to hide some information. Their responses were compared to those who didn't actually have headphones.
Summarizing the above, the results of research have shown that logically more complex lies lead to an increase in speech errors and to a slowdown in the pace of speech. A" light " lie (well-prepared or simply silent) is not accompanied by such patterns, and may even give the opposite picture-reducing the number of speech errors and speeding up speech. Scientists have studied in more detail the indirect effect of logical complexity of lying on the occurrence of speech stutters (Vrij & Heaven, 1999).
