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Lying in everyday life.
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Abstract
In 2 diary studies of lying, 77 college students reported telling 2 lies a day, and
70 community members told 1. Participants told more self-centered lies than other-oriented
lies, except in dyads involving only women, in which other-oriented lies were as common
as self-centered ones. Participants told relatively more self-centered lies to men
and relatively more other-oriented lies to women. Consistent with the view of lying
as an everyday social interaction process, participants said that they did not regard
their lies as serious and did not plan them much or worry about being caught. Still,
social interactions in which lies were told were less pleasant and less intimate than
those in which no lies were told.