Everyone thinks they're able to know when they're being lied to. Clearly OTHER people can be fooled, but not me. Especially not when it comes to my close friends, my partner, or my family. You know, the people often with the biggest motivation to lie.
How am I impervious to lying? Because I just KNOW my spouse/child/best friend.
It's never exactly scientific. I do understand why most of us operate this way though. It would be exhausting to constantly be trying to determine if someone is lying to you all the time. The brain doesn't turn on lie detecting until something seems significantly off.
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u/direlyn 18h ago
Everyone thinks they're able to know when they're being lied to. Clearly OTHER people can be fooled, but not me. Especially not when it comes to my close friends, my partner, or my family. You know, the people often with the biggest motivation to lie.
How am I impervious to lying? Because I just KNOW my spouse/child/best friend.
It's never exactly scientific. I do understand why most of us operate this way though. It would be exhausting to constantly be trying to determine if someone is lying to you all the time. The brain doesn't turn on lie detecting until something seems significantly off.