{"id":8130,"date":"2024-11-17T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/767411654757580800-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:30:29","slug":"767411654757580800-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/767411654757580800-2\/","title":{"rendered":"767411654757580800"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https:\/\/donotdestroy.tumblr.com\/post\/765964713155772416\/living-a-lie-we-deceive-ourselves-to-better\">donotdestroy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/living-a-lie-we-deceive-ourselves-to-better-deceive-others\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/living-a-lie-we-deceive-ourselves-to-better-deceive-others\/\",\"title\":\"Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others\",\"description\":\"New research provides the first evidence for a theory first put forward in the 1970s\",\"site_name\":\"Scientific American\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"f181f3f9efdc2fcd0c7ca2d390ce2992:8743592c6a321815-58\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/living-a-lie-we-deceive-ourselves-to-better-deceive-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s so interesting is that we seem to intuitively understand that if we can get ourselves to believe something first, we\u2019ll be more effective at getting others to believe it,\u201d says William von Hippel, a psychologist at The University of Queensland, who co-authored the study. \u201cSo we process information in a biased fashion, we convince ourselves, and we convince others. 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