Lying is a statement that is obviously not true, information. In another way, a lie can be called a deception, a lie. A person who disseminates knowingly untruthful information is trying to mislead another person or many people. He can lie, guided by both unworthy motives - for example, for mercenary purposes, or to discredit someone, and by using his deception to prevent even greater trouble.
What are the reasons for lying
The dissemination of knowingly untruthful information can be caused by a number of reasons. Very common cases are lies out of selfish motives, envy, and hostility. That is, a liar man expects either to get a specific profit, or to take revenge on some person by spreading false information about him, gossip.
Lying is a common (and, unfortunately, almost inevitable and irresistible) phenomenon in politics and business. The desire to attract attention, sympathy of voters and potential customers pushes politicians and businessmen to deceive. It can be both relatively harmless, in the form of some exaggeration of the dignity of a person or a company, and large-scale - for example, when generously given out unfulfilled promises are made and competitors are rudely rude, for example, in politics.
Lies may be unconscious. Overly emotional, impressionable people with a rich imagination are prone to it. In describing an event, a phenomenon, they are prone to exaggerated exaggeration, to omit certain details that do not fit into the outline of their story. Moreover, they often convince themselves and others that everything was just that, and not otherwise. A classic example is the tales of Baron Munchausen.
An extreme case of such a phenomenon is “pathological deceit”, when a person deceives, experiencing an urgent need for this. Some experts attribute it to the category of mental as well as social diseases. Among pathological liars there are many drug addicts, alcoholics, sociopaths, as well as people prone to narcissism, egocentrism.
Finally, it often happens that a liar spreads false information because he himself was misled. This is inherent in people who are too trusting, prone to gossip, for whom a reliable source of information is "one woman said."