Why do we believe lies?

People are willing to hear lies if they benefit them. The lies that "might become true" are the things that are making some people jump about excitement. The lies look like this: "In our company, the person not attending school can earn 5000 dollars per day". 

Or "our CEO has ever been in any schools. And he raises to the position of the head of 3000 employees company because of the good scent". And then some person can add that the "you can make similar career". 

So 1/3000 workers can rise to the position of CEO. And the probability seems very good. The thing that makes some people believe those things is, that they are a touch of self-esteem. Those things are told multiplied in a way that those people want to hear.

People who are victims of that kind of lies are probably left their schools without graduating. So they want to hear things that support their choice. How do they confess to people around them that they made the right decision? And then some angel comes and tells that they have the salesman who earns 8000 dollars per week. 

People want to hear those kinds of things especially if they don't like schools. The thing is that there is the possibility that one of 3000 can raise to an important position. That thing doesn't feel lie at all. When people believe that kind of lie they are a little bit overoptimistic. They want to hear those kinds of stories of success. 

Do e believe lies, or are we just acting that we believe them? 

When people are telling things that are not true, they tell lies. But why do we believe lies? Or do we believe lies? The thing is this: there are many times when we are seeing that people are telling about things that are not true. But we are not telling that thing to the storyteller because we want to be polite. 

If some old or sick person tells things that are not the fact at their probably last birthdays we might not tell that those things that the person tells are not true. So we want to be polite, but we should tell our children that the things that they heard were against facts.

In the case of governmental propaganda, the thing that boosts misinformation is that there is only one acceptable truth. If people are criticizing that official truth they will get in trouble. 

So do we believe the lies? One thing is that the person who is our boss is telling lies. Should we tell that our boss tells lies, or keep our mouths shut? In those cases, we don't believe lies, but we are playing that we cannot see that person telling things that are not true.

But then we must realize that people who are telling lies. Are more often believing them than the people who are telling truth. There are two explanations for that interesting thing.  The person who tells lies might believe that nobody noticed that. 

The lies like using the wrong name or hiding some vital-looking information are status. That thing rises the position of the person in the social hierarchy. And that might give a false image about the lying skills of that person. The question is: does the henchman believe lies? Or are they just letting that thing be? If you would in Russia, and see that some FSB agent is telling very poor lies would you tell that person is lying?

In that case, the authority of the liar denies that the people will tell the things that person is lying. In that case, the authority denies that people are not fixing lies, even if they know that person is lying.  In those cases, the afraid of consequences is denying that people tell that person lies to them. 

The social pressure that forces people to act as they might look believe lies is that they have used the same lies themselves. That thing causes the force, that they must make the same things with their victims. The salvation of the cheater is sometimes that they are made the same things as their victims or they believed those things. So the social pressure makes them act against their knowledge. 

Sometimes in those cases, the social pressure is denying to fix the misinformation. When most people who use authority others believe misinformation,  there is needed big courage to fix those lies.  This is the reason why propaganda is targeted at the superiors. The idea is that it denies the criticism because people are afraid to hurt their boss's emotions. 

But the second thing why people who often tell lies also believe lies more often than people who are telling the truth is simple. Liars hear lies more often than people who tell truth. The reason for that is simple. People surround themselves with people similar to themselves. That means liars are surrounding themselves with other liars. And that makes them hear lies more often than people who tell truth. 

Sources:

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