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and our behaviors and our actions
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continually to try to trick people into believing what's not true.
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We try to trick people, for instance,
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into believing that we're
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tougher, smarter, sexier,
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more reliable, more trustworthy and so on, than we really are.
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And a large part of social psychology
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concerns the way in which we present ourselves
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to other people so as to make the maximally positive impression
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even when that impression isn't true.
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At the same time,though,
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we've also evolved very good lie detection mechanisms.