Introduction

What makes people lie? Why would any of us willingly deceive somebody? We do it for panic greed, sometimes, sure. But not every lie has a clean cut ation. Some situations are more complicated than others. For example, what if you had three people each tell the same story in their own words? And what if none of the three versions matched? On september 20, second two thousand eight in television city studios, a game show taped just like it had for over three decades. It's an explosion of american populism, a ray of televised sunshine with a cradle to gr audience that is still on the air in the same time slaught to day. The eirs