🫥 You lie, but then, you trust

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:00:00 +1100

You default to ’true’ even after you lie

Deception shows up across species; humans are not the exception. Kids already lie strategically by age four, in industrial and non-industrial societies. Cognitive empathy and social empathy are still developing, and a four-year-old is mostly centered on their own wants. The strange part is truth bias: you lie too, yet you default to believing the next story you hear.

Once that trick works and nothing explodes, the brain starts to treat it as normal. You can see that shift directly in the wiring.

Social-Trust on behaviorengineering.ai

🫥 You lie, but then, you trust

You default to ’true’ even after you lie