kinds of lies

• White Lie/ Benign Lie


  Used to avoid the harmful and realistic implications of the truth. It will cause no discord if not discovered and offers some benefit to the liar and the hearer. It is basically used to lubricate interpersonal relationships.
• Black Lie


  Telling an untruth and attributing it to a false source. A lie who accompanies pretensions and hypocrisies, intriguing to cause dishonor or discredit one's good image
• Red Lie


  A lie common to communist countries, it is used to destroy common ideologies by means of propaganda. This involves political interests and motives because this is a party of communist propaganda strategy.
• Aggressive lies


  Self-serving and may potentially damage others, and therefore, most people would see them as clearly immoral.
• Bold-faced Lie


  A lie that is told when it is obvious to all concerned that it is a lie.
• Perjury


  Making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law or in any various statements in writing. Perjury is a crime because the witness has sworn to tell the truth, and for the credibility of the court, witness testimony must be relied on as being truthful.
• Malicious lie


  A pure dishonesty to obstruct justice. It is a very pure and unjustifiable kind of lie that is intended purely to mislead or obstruct justice by a guilty accused person.
• Altruistic lies


  Lies that are told to benefit someone else, to reduce suffering, or to help increase self-esteem. Used to comfort, protect and support the deceived.
• Pathological Lies


  Lies that are told even when there is little or no apparent gain to the person who is lying. In fact, the lying often occurs even when the results would be better if the truth was told. A lie made by persons who cannot distinguish right and wrong. Furthermore, the lie is not determined solely by situational factors and appears to be compulsive or fantastic.
• Emergency Lies Defensive Lies


  Used when the truth may not be told because of the harm that would come of it.
• Humorous Lies (Jocose Lie)


  Those aimed at amusing the listener, and any intent to deceive is transient and teasing. Characteristically, they involve some degree of preposterous exaggeration.
• Bluffing


  An act of deception that is not usually seen as immoral because it takes place in the context of a game where this kind of deception is consented to in advance by the players. This kind of deception is accepted as a tactic and even expected.
• Exaggeration


  When the most fundamental aspect of a statement is true but the degree of its truthfulness is incorrect. Maximization of felt emotions reflects a dramatic attempt to influence another person.
• Minimization


  The result of an individual's attempt to dampen the external appearance of a more deeply experienced emotion is minimization of emotional expression.
• Neutralization


  An effort to mask emotional response by adapting a "poker face". Psychoanalysts and other professionals may display relatively little response in their efforts to appear nonjudgmental of the patient's or client's statements.
• Substitution


  A common mechanism of hiding one's true feelings. One of the most common techniques employed for this purpose is to substitute "pleasure" for a negative emotion. Smiling is one of the easiest nonverbal communications to produce and may be used to mask feelings of arrogance, anxiety, or boredom.
• Promotion Lie


  A kind of lie used in advertisement (or marketing strategies) that is used to influence the consumers to buy products.
• guilt


  an emotion happens when someone feels like they've done something wrong and lays blame on themselves. intense feeling of shame
• symptoms of guilt

  anxiety, stress, sadness, feeling of worthlessness, low self esteem, regret, loneliness, and critical self talk
• lie


  any untruthful statement, falsehood. anything that deceives or creates false impression
• lying


  an uttering or conveying falsehood, creating misleading impression
• liar


  person who lie, person who says something they know is not true
• four factor theory

  arousal

  behavioral control

  emotion

  thinking
• information manipulation theory


  quantity, quality, relation and manner
• interpersonal deception theory


  lying happens in a dynamic interaction where the liar and listener dance around one another, changing their thoughts in response to each others moves. behavior includes: MANIPULATING INFORMATION, STRATEGICALLY CONTROL BEHAVIOR AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT
• placebo effect theory


  we believe and respond to fakes