Big Liars Are Truthful about Lying
大骗子们也“诚实”
Frequent fibbers, who tend to get high scores on tests measuring psychopathic traits, openly admit their untrustworthy tendency.
经常撒小谎的人会公开承认他们不靠谱，这些人通常也会表现出更多的精神病特征。
撰写/播音 苏菲•布什维克（Sophie Bushwick）
翻译 尹秋媛
Most of us are pretty truthful—and even tall tale tellers tell the truth about lying. Wait, what?
我们中的大多数都非常诚信，而即便那些吹大牛的人也会坦然承认自己撒了谎。等等...不是吧？
In a survey, more than 500 Amsterdam psychology students reported how often they lied. Forty-one percent said they told no lies, 51 percent told one to five lies per day, and eight percent told six or more lies a day. All told, a mere five percent of the students were responsible for 40 percent of the lies.
500多名阿姆斯特丹的心理学学生参与了一项关于“说谎”的调查，其中41%的学生说他们从不说谎，51%的学生每天要说1到5个慌，8%的学生每天要说谎6次或者更多。总地算下来，这群学生中的5%要对40%的谎言负责。
The study is in the journal Human Communication Research. [Rony Halevy, Shaul Shalvi and Bruno Verschuere, Being Honest About Dishonesty: Correlating Self-Reports and Actual Lying]
这项研究发表在《人类传播研究》 （Human Communication Research）杂志上。（文章题为：Rony Halevy, Shaul Shalvi and Bruno Verschuere, Being Honest About Dishonesty: Correlating Self-Reports and Actual Lying）
Ah, but how can we be sure the participants were honest about lying?
好吧，那我们又如何确定这些参与者是否说了真话呢？
The researchers asked some of the students to play games for a cash reward. Lying could earn them extra money. But they did not know that researchers could tell when they cheated.
研究人员找到其中的一些学生，告诉他们在测试中说谎会有现金奖赏。但这些学生不知道的是，研究人员能够分辨出他们是否说了谎。
And the big cheaters were the liars who admitted that they fibbed. Their honesty suggests they feel little remorse about lying. Which jibes with tests that find that liars tend to get higher scores for psychopathic traits. And that’s the truth.
这时候，会说谎的人，往往是那些承认自己经常骗人的人。而这种“诚实”，其实是因为他们会对说谎并没有多大的负罪感，这恰恰与他们在精神病指征测试中得到的高分相呼应——这，才是真相！
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