Who knew watches needed this much touching up? It's pretty amazing what can be done with technology these days. It's also pretty amazing the lengths to which companies will go to make their ads look as good as possible!
On a completely unrelated note, I thought this was interesting:
According to researchers cited by Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, three verbal cues give bald-faced liars away. ...
1. Verbosity
The first tell was simply that the liars tended to use a lot more words to make their points than the truth-tellers did.
"Just like Pinocchio's nose, the number of words grew along with the lie," says Van Swol. The only caveat here is that people who deceived simply by omitting facts, rather than offering untrue ones, also tended to use fewer words. So don't consider this tell foolproof.
2. Profanity
It turns out that people who swear more often tend to lie more often, too. In the study, this was even more pronounced after the receiving player challenged them.
"We think this may be due to the fact that it takes a lot of cognitive energy to lie," Van Swol says. "Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas."
3. Projection
The final major tell was that liars tended to use third-person pronouns more often ("he," "she," and "they"), presumably instead of making offers and justifications in the first person ("me" or "I").
"This is a way of distancing themselves from and avoiding ownership of the lie," Van Swol explains. Liars also used more complex sentence structure.
Hm, good to know...
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