Liars

Liars; they are very good at what they do! Evidence shows that most people learn to lie from the age of 3 - firstly it is to avoid getting into trouble then by the time they are 5 years old they are professionals and do it to avoid punishment. However they must learn to lie from somewhere; they learn to lie from their parents - mainly to protect another's feelings. However a lot of us are selfish when it comes to lying; lying to protect ourselves - well we are all experts at that but when it come to lying to protect someone else, well that is slightly more of a challenge.

On the other hand adults lie too - we mainly lie so we can impress someone or change their opinion of us as a person or professional. Despite the fact that we lie to others; we also lie to ourselves, whether it be how much we have had to eat that day or whether our jeans still fit us. It has also been proved that some of us are wired up differently - meaning that those who are wired differently honestly struggle to differ between a lie and the truth. Tests showed that the people who were considered pathological liars (those who struggle to differ between the truth and a lie) had a more significant amount of white matter than those with normal wiring.

As much as I am sure you would love to think you are an expert liar, chances are you are not; some people are better liars than others. Everyone has lied at some stage in their lives. According to a recent study extroverts lie more than introverts however the reason behind this is unknown.

There are also the type of people that lie to protect others; these people are far more likely to lie to loved ones because it is easier to lie to someone close to you than someone more distant. People will believe a lie from someone close to them rather than dig for the truth because they do not want to discover the consequences of the truth. However there are also those people that lie to themselves but deep down they know it is not the truth and chances are are that they are destroying themselves from within; they do this mainly to protect themselves and loved ones from the reality of the situation.