People lie, on average, one to two times per day. While the percentage of lies told by a person, the conditions under which we lie, and the degree to which the truth gets stretched all vary, research agrees — we all do it sometimes. Given the prevalence of lying, it seems inevitable that, at some point, we are going to get caught. Many people, however, don’t see it that way. Most of us believe that our lies actually work — mainly because it takes a rare person to confront us.
