You can t bullshit a bullshitter
The words of wisdom received when a person tries to deceive someone who is good at deceiving people. My dad said, "Son, I'm a used car salesman, Don't bullshit a bullshitter." Employer: It seems you tested positive for marijuana.
Description:Both the ability to deceive others, and the ability to detect deception, has long been proposed to confer an evolutionary advantage. Deception detection has been studied extensively, and the finding that typical individuals fare little better than chance in detecting deception is one of the more robust in the behavioral sciences. Surprisingly, little research has examined individual differences in lie production ability. As a consequence, as far as we are aware, no previous study has investigated whether there exists an association between the ability to lie successfully and the ability to detect lies. Furthermore, only a minority of studies have examined deception as it naturally occurs; in a social, interactive setting. The present study, therefore, explored the relationship between these two facets of deceptive behavior by employing a novel competitive interactive deception task DeceIT.
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