strategy
Lying
Synonyms:
Using falsehoodsProducing misleading statements
Telling lies
Telling falsehoods
Description:
Making a false statement intentionally. Implementation:
A university study found that the most convincing liars were the same people who emerged as the leaders of a group during a "staged" crisis, or in the case of children, in play groups. This implies that the same psychological skills that give leaders great self-control and authority in times of crisis also make them skilful liars. Claim:
1. Look at lovers. The sooner they confess to each other, the sooner they lie (Rainer Maria Rilke).2. Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it (Adolph Hitler).
3. The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try and tell them the truth. (H L Mencken).
Counter Claim:
If discovered most unverifiable statements will be assumed to be false. Broader:
Being fallaciousAffirming-Denying Narrower:
Swearing falselyLying to childrenLying for the goodCommitting perjuryLying in professional interestLying in the nation's interestLying in the government interestReducing susceptibility of electorate to government lying Facilitates:
Encouraging lyingPromulgating disinformation Facilitated by:
ExposingInventingSuppressing information Problems:
BetrayalDeception by government
Deception in business
Deceptive social science research
Deliberate lying by corporation officials
Falsity
Grey lies
Institutional lying
Invasion of privacy through testing
Living a lie
Lying
Medical deception
Mutual deceits
Parental lying
Paternalistic lies
Perjury
Political deception
Professional lying
Religious deception
Scientific misconduct
White lies
Values:
LieMisleading Subjects:
CensorshipProduction Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies