How can you tell if someone is lying?

Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by everdrive on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:48AM (#26610371)

This is an extreme case, but not an unusual one. People draw conclusions about people with very little information. They then carry on to believe that their conclusions have real weight, and are based in fact. It's part of why there were always be socially fluid types and con artists.

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Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by cutemonster on Sunday March 28, 2021 @11:13AM (#26611014)

It's as if directly when they draw some random conclusion about someone, they stop thinking, stop evaluating that person any more.

And they go on believing forever that that weird first random idea they got, was right.

(I might be exaggerating a bit.)

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Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by oceanghost on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:42PM (#26626357)

I know this isn't quite your point, but I can't tell you how many jobs I've not been offered due to missing some trivia question and the interviewer deciding my fate based on that.

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Re:How can you tell if someone is lying? by everdrive on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:25AM (#26634319)

I have a lot of anxiety about getting my next job, due to this and other reasons. "But you're well-qualified," my friends will say. Yes, but interviewers are capricious and irrational.

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