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Why We Are So Easy to Detect Truth and Lies
Psychologists have been struggling for generations to try and figure out why oure human beings are so bad at detecting truth and lies. Timlevin, who's the psychologist whose work ie relied on for that part of talking to strangers, all these ideas are really things that he and a couple of other collegues pioneered. You would have thought evolution would have selected out the people who ware good at telling truth from falsity, right? And tim's point is actually no, evolution which favors those who trust other people.