People Resort To Lying

Sudipta Roy Ghosh

Telling lies is not only caged in the infancy but also in the adult and even in the older ones. People resort to tell lying things for so many different reasons that it' d be impossible to list them all. Most of the common motives for telling lies, avoiding punishment is the primary motives for both children & adults. Other typical reasons include protecting ourselves or other from harms, maintaining self privacy, and avoiding embarrassment to name a few..

Except the genetic hidden emotion people often tell lies.

Dr. Paul Ekma, psychologist compiled over 50 years of his research to create comprehensive training to reach the hidden emotions ( source: The Time magazine, 2009).

After the research tube group of Dr. EKma got 9 motives for telling lies.

These are : 1) Protect some one else from punishment.

2) Protect oneself from physical harm.

4) obtain a reward.5) Avoid punishment.

6) Exercise power over others.7) Get out of award situation.

8) Win administration from others.9) Avoid Embarrassment.

Now its not a question at all, " why people tell lies? ". Because maximum people think, people tell lies, because they need to do it. Our future generation just follow their senior.

But it should be the ethics. We obviously have to think about it, we have to research about the cause behind it.

Reading between the lies the question may arise, " W why do people tell lies?" Such a simple question should come with a simple answer, but does not unfortunately.

According to Dr. Paul EKman group's research, for avoiding punishment people may frequently tell lies. Both children & adults are telling lies for the mentioned reason.

It is important to note that, there were no significant difference for lies, told to avoid punishment for a purposeful misdeed versus an honest mistake.

Dr. Paul EKman group secondly mentioned , for obtaining reward people people may tell lies. This is also a very most commonly mentioned motive by both children and adults. An example of this falsely claiming work experience during a job interview to increase chances of hire.

All the time avoiding self punishment is not the common motive of the people who tell lies.

Sometimes, we see, to protect coworkers, friends, family members and even with strangers, people use to tell lies. They are both children and adults. This motive is not ill or sin like.(to be continued)