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Originally Posted by Bruno
Part of the problem is that most people are pitted against pretty terrible-quality lies - humans do a lot of lying but we don't try very hard (as a species) to learn to be fantastically good at it beyond the little-white-lie level. Children are horrible at it because they have a cruddy theory of mind, but a lot of adults aren't really that much better at the empathy needed to lie really well.
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I read a book about body language once, my favourite paragraph went something like this:
In order to lie successfully, the person must learn to disguise their natural body language. Professional liars, such as actors and politicians, are very good at this.