The Psychology of Lying (2021 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, I watched the documentary about lying, and they presented a lot of research, |
| 0:05.0 | psychological research about lying, a lot of facts about lying, which seems like an oxymoron. |
| 0:10.3 | And I thought I would talk with you about the documentary and about all the research I looked up, |
| 0:15.5 | and we could discuss lying. |
| 0:17.6 | What do you say, Berto? |
| 0:18.5 | Let's do it. |
| 0:19.2 | This is the Psychology Institute of podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor. My name is Umberto Castaneda. I make a triangular ice cube. So I acquired the following facts. This isn't the documentary, but from the internet, various different websites, brand and gale.com, little things.com and other places. Tougher bluff, |
| 0:41.4 | Burdo. Americans lie 11 times a week. Tougher bluff. |
| 0:48.5 | 11 times a week. Well, if we are talking about all sorts of little white lies included, |
| 0:57.0 | then I'm going to go tough. Yeah, it is tough. What do you suppose they are measuring as an incident of a lie exactly? You know what I mean? |
| 0:58.0 | I mean, to be completely literal, it would be any time that they make a statement non-ironically |
| 1:03.0 | that is factually not true. |
| 1:06.0 | Right. |
| 1:07.0 | Right. But in practice, that's kind of odd because it's like, there's so many relative things. Like, oh, did you, did you park close? Yeah. But you might disagree. But, you know, like, I'm not lying. I'm just kind of fudging the facts, but it's not a big deal. Right. Is lying, I'm obviously telling your spouse that you didn't cheat on them when you did cheat on that's a clear. |
| 1:28.6 | That's a lot. |
| 1:29.2 | But I'm guessing that's not the majority of these 11 times a week is lying like when someone asks you, so did you tip them well? |
| 1:38.8 | And you're like, yeah, I tipped them pretty well, even though you kind of know, well, is me tip them 10%. Is that what we're talking about? |
| 1:44.4 | I imagine that's the majority of these lies. It's like seemingly smaller inconsequential lying, |
| 1:50.1 | or lying on an exam, or your boss says, so did you show up on time today? And you're like, |
| 1:57.4 | yeah, even though you're five minutes late or something. Or you tell |
| 2:01.6 | your boss, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't turn that in. I was real sick last night, even though you |
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