Talk:Lie

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Lie article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1, 2: 365 days

This article was nominated for deletion on 4 May 2014. The result of the discussion was keep.

Psychology High‑importance

	Psychology portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Psychology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Psychology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PsychologyWikipedia:WikiProject PsychologyTemplate:WikiProject Psychologypsychology articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Philosophy: Ethics High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philosophy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of content related to philosophy on Wikipedia. If you would like to support the project, please visit the project page, where you can get more details on how you can help, and where you can join the general discussion about philosophy content on Wikipedia.PhilosophyWikipedia:WikiProject PhilosophyTemplate:WikiProject PhilosophyPhilosophy articles

High

This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Associated task forces:
/
	Ethics

Skepticism High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Skepticism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of science, pseudoscience, pseudohistory and skepticism related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SkepticismWikipedia:WikiProject SkepticismTemplate:WikiProject SkepticismSkepticism articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

Celeste Biever (February 12, 2004). "People lie more on the phone than by email". NewScientist.com.

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

Angus Deayton (July 11, 2008). "Would I Lie To You, Series 2 Episode 1". BBC.

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways (which has a pie chart giving frequency of various reasons for lying

willful ignorance / deniability[edit]

Among the Types of lies should be included the "I don't know" or "not to my knowledge" which are only tortuously contrived to be so-called-'true' because they have been carefully cultivated by willful neglect of duty. Because some people want a certain outcome, a person who should be responsible may willfully avoid asking critical questions, and their subordinates may know to preserve their willful ignorance to maintain deniability.

"Do you think the owner will mind if we throw our garbage on their property?" "You know perfectly well they'd mind... just ask them." "No, I'd rather just say I didn't know they would mind."
"I didn't know that smoking our product was killing people." (Because I did everything in my power to avoid the evidence that I suspected was true.) DKEdwards (talk) 19:50, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, but do you have any citations that are not WP:FRINGE? Sounds like something that might get address in the practice of Law. Lack of due diligence or something like that. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 15:53, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Error to fix[edit]

The article say: “The discovery of a lie may discredit other statements by the same speaker, staining his reputation.”

“staining his reputation” is entirely unnecessary gendered, it should ideally say “staining their reputation” to be all inclusive, and as such, accurate. I however am unable to make this edit myself due to the articles protection status 2600:1700:BA0:FC40:E404:97A4:1AE9:8922 (talk) 23:16, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DONE. --GHcool (talk) 23:39, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion: Discussion or inclusion of the topic of "gaslighting"[edit]

Under the "Types and associated terms" section, there seems to be a lack of discussion around the aspect of gaslighting, where false or untrue narratives are presented to the other person(s) which often makes them question their own reality or truth. I feel this is a unique and important form of lying which is not currently in this section. Antiquetwerp (talk) 02:28, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

1984first.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 07:08, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lie[edit]

Lying is bad.A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deceiving or misleading someone. The practice of communicating lies is called lying. A person who communicates a lie may be termed a liar. .it is also bad because it is annoying not knowing if you can trust someone. It also makes you look bad A person that makes a lie is considered a liar.lying can be interpreted as deliberately false statements or misleading statements. The term lie also carries a negative connotation. In some cases depending on the lie a person can get arrested or charged a huge fine. Many cultures believe that lying is a sign of nonhuman behavior. Lying can be detected by observing nonverbal behaviors. An example of these behaviors are: not making eye contact,fidgeting, and stuttering. 2601:582:C100:4340:E9D3:17F0:2EE0:1538 (talk) 01:56, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]