This article talks about how lying tendies can actually be genitic even though they are more dependent on the situiation. There are many types of lies and reasons people lie. Is it ever ok to lie? effects of lying. There is even a new show on spike tv called 1,000 ways to lie (spin off of 1,000 ways to die). How should the law punish liars is what i have always wanted to know. Everyone probably wants to know how to tell when someone is lying, but some people are so good it is crazy think off all the ways law enforcement agencies try to detect lying. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A996942
pathology of lying
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As I read above our law system clearly has a huge problem when it comes to lying. We’ve all met those people who can lie their way out of absolutely anything. An example would be my brother, who always landed the blame on me. While reading articles about lying, I came across one that talked about police lying. The police are supposed to be the justice seeking moral studs who catch the bad guys. So what do we do when the police officers lie? The article explains how during many drug or weapon cases police may lie about seeing a bulge in their pocket, a gun. Or perhaps say that the drugs were in plain sight. Let’s be honest, if you have drugs when you see a police man, you probably aren’t going to lay those drugs out in front of you in plain sight. The article used a word I found it be very clever. It said that “testilying” occurs more on the stand than one would think.
Wikipedia says… “ “Testilying” typically refers to United States police slang for the practice of giving false testimony against a defendant in a criminal trial, typically for the purpose of "making the case" against someone they believe to be guilty when legal technicalities weren't followed to the letter during the arrest of the suspect, or while searching the immediate area.”
Article found here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2468608/posts
This could be relating to social psychology in my mind. The police may be socially expected to admit on the stand that they saw the drugs in plain sight, because if they didn't, they could be seen as in the wrong. I believe society places a mold that police men need to fill. This could case them to lie about cases to make them look like the hero who caught the bad guy. But let's face it, it is hardly that simple.