Unthinkable: Politicians who tell lies have an advantage because of what psychologists call the ‘false consensus effect’
Politicians who tell lies have an advantage because of what psychologists call the ‘false consensus effect’
“We start lying early in life – between two and three years of age,” says Geoff Beattie, author of Lies, Lying and Liars: A Psychological Analysis. Someone you don’t generally see quoted at length in new releases is Adolf Hitler but Beattie looks closely at how the Nazi leader’s Mein Kampf provides a template for political scammers. “It would never come into heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously,” the fascist ruler wrote.
“Political liars understand that we ourselves tell lies in our everyday lives and we experience guilt when we tell them. Hence the advantage of the ‘big lie’.
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