I was just going through some researches on telling lies and the following are the results I found about how they may affect those who tell lies- white or black (if there's any such thing):

1. Increased release of stress hormones responsible for increased symptoms like poor sleep, headaches, increased heart rate and blood pressure as well as reduced immunity (body's ability to naturally fight off diseases)

2. Reduced quality of relationships with people that matter to you. This in turn impacts on mental health

3. Using lies in relationships was found to result in more depression and lower self-esteem in the liar

4. Telling 'white' lies was found to actually make people spend more money than they may have planned on people they happened to lie to. Another study showed that apart from spending more money, people who knew they shouldn't lie but lied anyway tend to sacrifice for those they lied to and act to their advantage as if to pay for that episode of lying.

5. Who ever tells lie is vulnerable to being manipulated if the person lied to also knows it was a lie (even when the liar hasn't confessed)

One of the researches (by Anita Kelly, see below) discovered that people can be influenced to consciously cut down lying, and that the health benefit of not lying is more significant in this group than those who didn't just want to have to confess they lied more while the research was on.

* The studies were conducted at different times under different circumstances by different people- 1. Anita Kelly, professor of psychology at University of Notre Dame, Indiana 2. Sally Theran, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 3. Jennifer J. Argo, Cormie Professor of Marketing at School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada

What do you think of this?

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fυςking interesting