According to research by Cornell professor Jeffrey Hancock, we fib less frequently when we're online than when we're talking in person. Hancock asked a sampling of his undergraduates to record all of their communications -- and all of their lies -- over the course of a week. When he tallied the results, he found that the students had mishandled the truth in about 25% of all face-to-face conversations, and in a whopping 37% of phone calls. But when they went into cyberspace, they turned into Boy Scouts: only 1 in 5 instant messaging chats contained a lie, and barely 14% of email messages were dishonest. What it is about online life that makes us more truthful? It's simple: We're worried about being busted. In ''real'' life, it's actually pretty easy to get away with spin. If you tell a lie to someone at a cocktail party or on the phone, you can always backtrack later and claim you said no such thing. On the Internet, though, your words often come back to haunt you. The digital age is tough on its liars, as a seemingly endless parade of executives are learning to their chagrin. Today's titans of industry are laid low not by ruthless competitors but by prosecutors gleefully waving transcripts of old e-mail, filled with suggestions of subterfuge.
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.[Source: Clive Thompson, via New York Times]
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