Claiming that you got a
“Good”
grade in the baccalaureate when you actually had difficulty obtaining it in the remedial exam;
reassure your colleague that she looks good even though she really looks tired;
explain to your partner that you had every intention of doing the dishes but that a last-minute professional phone call prevented us from doing so... Both the small and big lies of our existence generally respond to a secret motivation: to give a good self-image, obtaining an advantage (a position, a promotion), avoiding a conflict, pleasing or not causing pain - which sometimes amounts to the same thing.
If these little arrangements with reality often help us to grease the wheels of life in society or in the family, lying can also arouse in us... a certain pleasure.
“Lying provokes three main emotions: the guilt linked to the fact of cheating and deceiving someone, the fear of being caught and finally the delight of deception”
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