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Professor Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California has made a scientific study of lying. According to him, women
Professor Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California has made a scientific study of lying. According to him, women
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2011-05-17
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Professor Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California has made a scientific study of lying. According to him, women are better liars than men, particularly when telling a "white lie" , such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks awful. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researchers say that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no intention of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.
Research has also been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a number of small, apparently unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the time, they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer, they are saying, "I wish I were somewhere else now. " They also tend to touch certain parts of the face more often, in particular the nose. One explanation of this may be that lying causes a slight increase in blood pressure. The tip of the nose is very sensitive to such changes and the increased pressure makes it itch.
Another gesture which gives liars away is what the writer Desmond Morris in his book " Man-watching" calls "the mouth coyer". He says there are several typical forms of this, such as covering part of the mouth with the fingers, touching the upper-lip or putting a finger of the hand at one side of the mouth. Such a gesture can be interpreted as all unconscious attempts on the part of the liar to stop himself or herself from lying. Of course, such gestures as rubbing the nose or covering the mouth, or squirming about in a chair cannot be taken as proof that the speaker is lying. They simply tend to occur more frequently in this situation. It is not one gesture alone that gives the liar away but a whole number of things, and in particular the context in which the lie is told.
When people lie, they tend to rub their noses in order to ______.
选项
A、stop themselves from lying
B、scratch an itch
C、avoid offensive smell
D、given a hint of lying
答案
B
解析
细节题。第二段最后一句解释了撒谎人撒谎时喜欢摸鼻子的原因:这么做的原因可能是撒谎导致血压上升, 鼻子尖对于这种变化非常敏感, 上升的血压导致鼻子发痒。因此选B。
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