June 24, 2008

why do we lie?

A pretty exhaustive (and exhausting) list.

posted by in humans, language, psychology | * | 3 comments 

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  1. The World on June 24th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Dear Clusterflock,

    We don’t lie.

    AP lies.

    Sincerely,
    The World

  2. Cooper Renner on June 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Why should this make me think of Robert Bly’s “The Teeth-Mother Naked at Last,” written in protest of the Vietnam War, in which he claims at one point that “the president” (presumably Johnson, but maybe also Nixon) lies because he wants to die, an interesting psychological leap.

  3. Sheila Ryan on June 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    I’ve not read the Bly poem. That is curious. I’ll have to track it down.

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