Phần 2
First, …(7)…reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements. They write or talk more about others, often using the third …(7)…to distance and disassociate themselves from their lie, which sounds more false: "Absolutely no …(8)… took place at this house," or "I didn't host a …(8)…here."
Second, liars tend to be more negative, because on a subconscious …(9)…, they feel guilty about lying. For example, a liar might say something like, "Sorry, my stupid phone battery died. I hate that thing."
Third, liars typically explain events in simple terms since our brains struggle to build a complex lie. Judgement and evaluation are complex things for our brains to compute. As a U.S. …(10)… once famously insisted: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
And finally, even though liars keep descriptions simple, they tend to use longer and more convoluted sentence structure, inserting unnecessary words and irrelevant but factual sounding …(11)…in order to pad the lie. Another President confronted with a scandal proclaimed: "I can say, categorically, that this investigation indicates that no one on the White House staff, no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this very bizarre incident."
Từ mới:
deceptive: dối trá, lừa bịp
disassociate: tách ra, phân ly
subconscious: tiềm thức
guilty: tội lỗi
convoluted: rối rắm
confronted: đối chất
proclaimed: tuyên bố
categorically: thẳng thừng, dứt khoát
bizarre: quái gở, kỳ quái
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