Essays on Lying

There are times when lying is better than telling the truth since lies are reflections of reality that people cannot handle. One would instead choose to believe in illusions than the truth because human beings tend to decide to remain ignorant to prevent pain and...

A class study was conducted to measure the correlation between parental strictness and child lying. We wanted to find whether the stricter a parent is, the more likely it is for a child to lie. We used a survey to measure how strict a parent...

Human has an aptitude to lie and that is one of the most common fault that we all have probably done. I cannot say that I have never lied before but I cannot also justifiy that it resulted into any good. There was this time...

From telling a friend that their dish is delicious, to falsely blaming absences on a busy schedule, lying has always been a natural response during uncomfortable situations. In “Learning to Lie” by Po Bronson and “Is Lying Bad for Us?” by Richard Gunderman, the authors...

Lying, in general, seems to be a somewhat functioning part of society. Whether we deem that moral or not, is determined by our own view of morality. To those who are honest, of course it would be “wrong” to lie, but what about those who...

Does it hurt when someone lies to you? Someone who you may care for deliberately disrespecting your trust. We live in a society where lying comes as a human nature and is brought on daily whether that be a daughter lying to her mother, or...

The act of lying has been around since the beginning of society and has started to become the social normality. Almost everyone lies, whether it is a white lie to protect someone we love from the truth, it is still considered lying and and we...

The purpose of studying children’s lying behavior is to give valid reasons on why children begin to lie early in life in order to conceal their wrongdoing. However, at many times children are coached to lie and it is harder to detect the lie when...

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful. – St Agustine From a young age, we are taught that telling the truth is always the right thing to do no matter the consequences. We understand what...

Throughout the course we have discussed many types of ethics and views on morals. However, one of the biggest differentiating facts between these types of ethics is their view on lying, whether it be right or not and if so when lying would be ethically...