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Do People Lie More On the Internet? - ABC NewsIn 1996, University of Virginia psychologist Bella M. DePaulo published a landmark study on lying that revealed an ugly truth about humans: Everyone fibs left and right.
DePaulo asked participants keep a daily dairy and jot down who they spoke to, what they said and whether they were telling the truth or lying, even during the most casual interactions.
The results? People dropped an average of two lies every day.
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"Most people believe that given the opportunity, everything else equal, people will lie more online than they would face-to-face," said Jeff Hancock, an associate professor of communications at Cornell University who specializes in information technology and deception.