{"id":6055,"date":"2026-10-13T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/why-do-people-lie-and-how-often-are-you-lied-to-bbc-ideas\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:42:47","slug":"why-do-people-lie-and-how-often-are-you-lied-to-bbc-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/why-do-people-lie-and-how-often-are-you-lied-to-bbc-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do people lie and how often are you lied to? | BBC Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tjRP0FnoxN8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Why do we lie? And how often are you lied to? Well, sorry to break it to you, but it&#8217;s probably more than you think. People lie to avoid punishment, for personal gain or because they get a kick out of it. Basically there are lots of reasons that people lie (and everybody does it).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Ideas \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a curious mind? You&#8217;re in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>Our aim on BBC Ideas is to feed your curiosity, to open your mind to new perspectives, and to leave you that little bit smarter.  <\/p>\n<p>So dive in. Let us know what you think. And make sure to subscribe!  \ud83d\udc49https:\/\/bbc.in\/2F6ipav<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website to see all of our videos: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/ideas<br \/>\nAnd follow BBC Ideas on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcideas<\/p>\n<p>#bbcideas #psychology #lies<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tjRP0FnoxN8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we lie? And how often are you lied to? Well, sorry to break it to you, but it&#8217;s probably more than you think. People lie to avoid punishment, for personal gain or because they get a kick out of it. Basically there are lots of reasons that people lie (and everybody does it). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150508,"featured_media":6056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[197,2041,2042,2044,495,2045,11969,11968,384,182,77,2046,2043,11970,11967,11963,11965,11966,11964],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-animations","tag-bbc-ideas","tag-bbcideas","tag-curious-minds","tag-explainer","tag-learning","tag-lie","tag-people-lie","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-science","tag-self-improvement","tag-short-films","tag-why-are-you-lie","tag-why-do-people","tag-why-do-people-lie","tag-why-do-we-lie","tag-why-do-you-lie","tag-why-people-lie","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}