Stuff Your Dad Knows

Your kids are going to want to know why people lie.  Maybe they'll want to know why YOU lie. You totally do, everyone does. In this episode, Ethan Millard and visiting co- host Rebecca Cressman of FM100.3 talk about why people lie, how people lie, and how to deal with it when your kids try it. Lying is something that happens across the animal kingdom. Wolves will conduct feints to mislead prey and killdeer will pretend to be injured to lure predators away from a vulnerable nest. Humans have a whole spectrum of deception. From the "little white lie" to exaggeration, bluffing, and others, we have lots of ways to manipulate information and belief to our advantage. There are a lot of reasons people lie. Often it's because people don't want to disappoint each other. But what do you do if someone, maybe your child, is lying and won't cop to it even when it's obvious? David J. Ley, PhD wrote in Psychology Today that sometimes a lie indicates an issue of critical importance to the person lying.  That may be the reaso