撒谎永远是人类的天性_BEC初级作文

撒谎永远是人类的天性

文章作者余和吉特·巴塔查尔吉探讨了心理学、神经科学和欺骗艺术，来解释“为什么我们说谎：欺骗背后的科学”。

Researchers think that pretty much as soon as humans could speak, we were bending the truth.

研究人员认为，人类自打会说话以来，就没停止过撒谎。

"The ability to manipulate others without using physical force likely conferred an advantage in the competition for resources and mates, akin to the evolution of deceptive strategies in the animal kingdom, such as camouflage," Bhattacharjee writes.

巴塔查尔吉写道：“在不动用武力的情况下操纵他人，这项能力可能让你在竞争资源和伴侣时占有优势，有点类似动物世界里不断演变的欺骗战略，好比说伪装。”

These days, there seem to be four main reasons we lie.

现如今，我们之所以撒谎，似乎有四个主要原因。

We do it to promote ourselves or protect ourselves. We do it to affect others, either to be kind or cruel. And then there are the situations that are inexplicable, even to us.

我们这么做是为了抬高自己或保护自己。撒谎是为了影响别人，或是出于善意，或是出于恶意。甚至有时连我们自己不清楚自己为什么撒谎。

The littlest kids are the least likely to lie, probably because they're still learning how to do it. In an experiment at the University of Toronto, children are asked to guess the identity of a hidden toy.