lying by gender redux
Women may be
better liars, but apparently they're
no more prolific than men:
Feldman said the results showed that men do not lie more than women or vice versa, but that men and women lie in different ways. "Women were more likely to lie to make the person they were talking to feel good, while men lied most often to make themselves look better," Feldman said.
Apart from the by-gender observations, the most interesting result was the (unquantified) observation that
the students who participated in the study were surprised at their own results. "When they were watching themselves on videotape, people found themselves lying much more than they thought they had," Feldman said.
I don't know whether the surprise was because of unconscious lying or selective memory. Or maybe it was itself a lie.