The Science of Lying
Hank gets into the dirty details behind our lying ways - how such behavior evolved, how pathological liars are different from the rest of us, and how scientists are getting better at spotting...
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Hey y'all, time for two truths and a lie. I'm gonna tell you three things about myself, and you're gonna have to pick out the one that is not true. Ready? Okay. Number one, I have a machine at home that transforms plain water into carbonated water. Two, I'm really bad at the card game Set, or three, Michael Jackson is my aunt. Is it that obvious? [camera man: Yeeeeah.] God, I'm so bad at game. [intro music] Lying! We do it a lot, and we're a lot better at it than you'd like to think. Like, I'm not stupid, I could totally have made up a better lie than Michael Jackson is my aunt. But check it out, the fact that I appeared to be terrible at lying was in fact...A lie. In a ten minute conversation with a stranger, we humans...
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Hey y'all, time for two truths and a lie. I'm gonna tell you three things about myself, and you're gonna have to pick out the one that is not true. Ready? Okay. Number one, I have a machine at home that transforms plain water into carbonated water. Two, I'm really bad at the card game Set, or three, Michael Jackson is my aunt. Is it that obvious? [camera man: Yeeeeah.] God, I'm so bad at game. [intro music] Lying! We do it a lot, and we're a lot better at it than you'd like to think. Like, I'm not stupid, I could totally have made up a better lie than Michael Jackson is my aunt. But check it out, the fact that I appeared to be terrible at lying was in fact...A lie. In a ten minute conversation with a stranger, we humans...
