{"id":7046,"date":"2011-06-16T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humintell.com\/?p=7046"},"modified":"2011-09-19T13:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:22:56","slug":"how-to-keep-people-from-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/06\/how-to-keep-people-from-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep People from Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9077\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/06\/how-to-keep-people-from-lying\/the-signature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9077\" title=\"The signature\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dreamstimefree_2011138-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dreamstimefree_2011138-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dreamstimefree_2011138-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/dreamstimefree_2011138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a>Keeping people from lying is quite simple reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/one-blindingly-simple-way-to-improve-honestly-2011-6?utm_source=twbutton&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=warroom-contributor\">Business Insider<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure many of you know the process of filling out an auto loan or tax document and at the end there\u2019s always a statement that you have to sign affirming that \u2018the facts you presented are true and correct to the best of your knowledge\u2019, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, recent experiments have shown that people who sign <em>after<\/em> they fill out their information are <em>more likely<\/em> to lie about the information requested than people who sign that statement of honesty <strong><em>before<\/em><\/strong> they fill out their information.<\/p>\n<p>The Universities of Harvard, Duke and Toronto researchers wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026simply moving the signature line from the end to the beginning of a form will bring one\u2019s moral standards into focus, right before it is most needed\u2026by the time individuals have filled out the form, they have already engaged in various mental tricks and justifications that allow them to maintain a positive self-image.<\/p>\n<p>Does promising something before you do it actually promote honesty and truthfulness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping people from lying is quite simple reports the Business Insider . I\u2019m sure many of you know the process of filling out an auto loan or tax document and at the end there\u2019s always a statement that you have to sign affirming that \u2018the facts you presented are true and correct to the best&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-nonverbal-behavior","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7046"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9081,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7046\/revisions\/9081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}