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III.

Conciousness: The language of lying


Author:Noah Zandan
Words and idioms:

 Humans tell between 10 and 200 lies per day;


 The underlying assumption that lying spurs physiological
changes;
 On a psychological level, we lie partly to paint a better
picture of ourselves, connecting our fantasies to the person
we wish we were rather than the person we are;
 A false story has different patterns of languages;
 Deceptive statements-liars talk more about others;
 Liars tend to be more negative; they create
longer.complicated sentences and they like to control every
outcome of their lie (subconsciously they feel guilty for
lying);
 Liars tend to insert irrelevant but factual sounding stories.
 4 telltale clues : 1. Minimal self-references;
2. Negative language;
3. Simple explanations;
4. Convulted phrasing.
IV. DNA: You could have a secret twin (but not the way you
think)
Author: Kayla Mandel Sheets
Words and idioms:
 Karen Keegan was discovered to be one of her son’s
mother while the other 2 sons’ aunt;
 She had 2 sets of genes, one of which belonged to her
unborn twin (=chimerism);
 Some fetals stem cells can replace and specialize as
parts of other oragans that no longer are functional;
 This condition can happened to both sexes;
 1 in 8 individual births started out as twin pregnancies,
there could be many more people with two genomes.

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