Tali Sharot and Neil Garrett: Trump's lying seems to be getting worse. Psychology suggests there's a reason why.
To psychologists interested in the science of lying, Trump’s increasing mendacity presents an interesting question.

Between when President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2017 and the end of April, the average number of public false or misleading statements he has made per day has been increasing. According to the Washington Post’s fact checkers on May 1, "for the president’s first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day... since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 claims a day."
This is a significant rise. Our calculations suggest that if the current escalation rate remains steady, by the end of his term the president could be making as many as 19 public false statements a day, on average.

To psychologists interested in the science of lying, Trump’s increasing mendacity presents an interesting question: What might be causing this growth?
We first considered whether the increase could be explained by reporting bias. In other words, perhaps more falsehoods have been reported over time, rather than actually presented by the president. We found this explanation to be unlikely, as the Washington Post fact checkers stated they have scrutinized every single tweet, speech, statement and interview by the president since last January. (Importantly, this analysis is confined to public statements and it is difficult to know whether there has been a change in Trump’s total falsehoods.)

So if not reporting bias, what can explain the temporal increase of these falsehoods? Perhaps past lies needed to be covered up by more lies, or repeated falsehoods were eventually perceived as true making subsequent repetition likely. Or maybe falsehoods led to positive consequences, reinforcing such behavior further. These are all plausible explanations. But our research points to yet another intriguing explanation — a biological process called emotional adaptation.

Emotion plays an important role in constraining dishonesty. If we feel bad when we lie, we are less likely to do so. But if this uncomfortable feeling were to magically disappear, research suggests we would in turn lie more....

Repeated dishonesty is a bit like a perfume you apply over and over. At first you easily detect the powerful scent of a new perfume. But over time and with more applications you can hardly sense its presence, so you apply more liberally. This happens because neurons in your olfactory bulb desensitize to the smell of the perfume. Similarly, it appears that our response to our own acts of dishonesty is strong at first, but over time decreases.

The picture becomes more alarming when we consider that individuals adapt not only to their own dishonesty but also to that of others. Research Harvard professors Francesca Gino and Max Bazerman shows that people are less likely to criticize the unethical actions of others when such behavior increases gradually over time. Politically speaking, this suggests that voters (and perhaps even the president’s own advisors) may desensitize to the president’s falsehoods in the same way that they do to overused perfume, making them less likely to act to correct this pattern of behavior. The absence of sanctions could in turn be interpreted as a “green light” by the president.

Indeed, in a recent study of 2,500 U.S. citizens, the psychologist Birony Swire-Thompson found that Trump supporters’ intentions to vote for him were not affected by learning that the president had provided false information. And a recent Gallup poll showed that while the percentage of Americans who believe the president is “honest and trustworthy” has decreased from 46 percent in February to 36 percent in April, his approval ratings remained relatively stable. Indeed, in the past few months his approval rating continues to rise.

It is thus likely that we will observe a continuing increase in the number of falsehoods emanating from the Oval Office, accompanied by less and less outrage from the public.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tr...here-ncna876486

Und damit begibt sich die Gesellschaft graduierlich immer tiefer in einen Nebel von Luegen und Wunschdenken. Die gesamte Nation versinkt in einer Art Surrealiaet -vollstaendig auf Luege und Verarschung gegruendet. Und sie findet immer weniger dabei. Wie oben dargelegt, mit der Zeit gewoehnt sie sich daran. Orwell's "1984" laesst gruessen

Nur, gutgehen wird das nicht. Kann es naemlich nicht. Genauso wie mit geschlosssenen Augen oder sturzbesoffen Auto fahren oder eine schwere Drogenabhaengigkeit gutgehen kann.

Es werden Fehler gemacht werden, die aus Verbloedung nicht als solche erkannt oder aus festhalten an der Luege nicht zugegeben werden -und dementsprechend nicht korrigiert werden. Das wird Folgen haben.
Und es kreisen genug Piratenschiffe um das Schiff mit lauter bekloppten und Besoffenen auf der Bruecke, die jeden Fehler fuer sich sofort ausnutzen werden.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeCqOINXUAA8G4B.jpg

Manche Entscheidungen Trumps sind begrüßenswert.
https://www.katholisches.info/2018/05/tr...dollar-im-jahr/

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3252

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Manche Entscheidungen Trumps sind begrüßenswert.
https://www.katholisches.info/2018/05/tr...dollar-im-jahr/

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3252

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Manche Entscheidungen Trumps sind begrüßenswert.

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Zitat von ghassan im Beitrag #3254

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3252

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Manche Entscheidungen Trumps sind begrüßenswert.

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Ich kenne die Hintergründe dieser "Industrie" nicht. Aber Frauen aufgrund der Regeln eines Phantasiegottes für etwas zu bestrafen, dass NUR sie selbst etwas angeht und nicht die Gesellschaft, ist in meinem Denken so surreal, dass mir fast die Worte fehlen.
Natürlich ist es wünschenswert, dass keine Frau ein Kind abtreibt, aber es sollte verdammt nochmal die Entscheidung der betroffenen Frau sein und nicht die des Nachbarns, ob das Kind ausgetragen wird oder nicht.
Was die Gesellschaft tun kann und tun sollte, ist den betroffenen Frauen Hilfe anzubieten. Den Frauen, die sich in einer scheinbar aussichtlosen Situation befinden, Wege aufzuzeigen und sie dabei unterstützen und wenn die betroffene Frau sich trotzdem für eine Abtreibung entscheidet, sie auch hier zu unterstützen. Sie nicht gesellschaftlich stigmatisieren und sie auch nicht zwingen illegal zu einem Hinterhofmetzger zu gehen. Wenn sich diese Hilfe in einem Land mit 300 Millionen Menschen organisiert und staatliche Unterstützung erhält ist das prinzipiell einmal begrüssenswert.
Wenn dies zu einer "industriellen" Vermarktung für Abtreibung verkommt, sollte man die Unterstützung streichen.
Ich glaube dem Kreationist Trump nicht, dass ihn das "Industrielle" daran stört sondern denke, der Grund für sein Handeln ist seiner Einstellung gegenüber Frauen geschuldet.

Würden Männer schwanger, wäre Abtreibung steuerlich absetzbar.

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Zitat von ghassan im Beitrag #3254

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Aber Frauen aufgrund der Regeln eines Phantasiegottes für etwas zu bestrafen, dass NUR sie selbst etwas angeht und nicht die Gesellschaft, ist in meinem Denken so surreal, dass mir fast die Worte fehlen.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3256

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Wenn man der Meinung ist, ein Fötus ist ein werdender Mensch, dann ist die Abtreibung ein Mord.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3256

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Hier geht es nicht um "Regeln eines Phantasiegottes" sondern um eine allgemeingültige Regel:
"du sollst nicht morden"

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #3257

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #3256

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Wenn man der Meinung ist, ein Fötus ist ein werdender Mensch, dann ist die Abtreibung ein Mord.

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Deswegen ist die offizielle, euphemistische Bezeichnung auch "Schwangerschaftsabbruch". Hört sich doch gleich viel freundlicher an...

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Abtreibung ist definitiv Mord.

Es braucht dazu keine geistigen Veitstänze, um das künstlich anders zu deuten.
Es ist Mord, weil es bewusst und vorsätzlich geschieht.


Das ist die eine Seite.

Die andere Seite ist, ob das legal oder legitim sein sollte.
Sollte Mord unter bestimmten Umständen legal und legitim sein?

Das sind zwei unterschiedliche Ebenen.

Ich habe während meiner medizinischen Ausbildung gelernt,
dass Werbung für Praxen verboten ist.
Man darf also noch nicht einmal auf sein Praxisschild schreiben,
dass man Experte/in in der Bahandlung einer bestimmten Erkrankung sei,
sondern nur die Fachrichtung.
In den Medien wie Zeitung usw. ist nur erlaubt, die befristete Schließung
der eigenen Praxis und die Wiedereröffnung vor und nach einer längeren Abwesenheit
anzukündigen. Jedenfalls war das noch bei Abschluss meiner Ausbildung so.
Nahal weiß da bestimmt noch Aktuelleres.
Im Falle von Abtreibungspraxen will man nun hierzulande von dieser ehernen Regel abweichen.
Das stimmt schon bedenklich.

Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #3261

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Nahal weiß da bestimmt noch Aktuelleres.
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Ireland Votes To Repeal Abortion Amendment In Landslide Referendum
Irish women will no longer have to travel to the United Kingdom to end their pregnancies.

The landmark referendum heralds a new era for women’s rights in a government that for centuries operated as a theocracy. Ireland’s parliament is now expected to write a more liberal law on the procedure, which will likely allow a woman to complete an abortion until up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/res...4b0802d69cb2cff

Israel’s abortion law now among world’s most liberal
Despite its conservative leanings, government approves free pregnancy termination for nearly all women, and it barely causes a ripple.

Israel, a nation with a forceful religious lobby and a conservative prime minister, is poised to offer its female citizens some of the most liberal abortion coverage in the world.

The nation’s Health Ministry commission, led by Dr. Yonatan Halevy, last week announced its state-subsidized “health basket,” the package of medications and services that all Israeli citizens are entitled to under the nation’s health care system. It was approved by the cabinet on Sunday. The health basket is analyzed and amended on an annual basis, and among the many additional treatments to be offered to Israelis in 2014 are free-of-charge abortions for women ages 20-33.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-ab...s-most-liberal/

Flirting With Disaster: Trump’s Foreign Policy Of One, For One
These are dangerous times. We have a president whose foreign policy careens all over the track like an out of control stock car at Daytona; it’s wheels spinning and smoking, the driver, a novice politician who just wants to win the race but doesn’t even know how to start the car. So we watch, nervously, hoping “Car USA” isn’t obliterated.

Our foreign policy is a mess. Decisions are made not in the national interest, but in Trump’s interest, and mostly without planning of participation by others in the White House. He campaigned on “America First,” but it’s becoming “Trump Alone.”

- “America First” is turning out to be America Alone, as the United States isolates itself from the world in ways not seen since the 1930s.
- Trump has pulled out of the Iranian nuclear agreement, the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In all three cases, the president promised he would negotiate a better deal for the United States. He has not yet done so.
- The president launched a “trade war” against China, which he said would be easy to win. Then he blinked, with no meaningful concessions from Beijing.
- Trump said last May that securing peace in the Middle East would be “frankly maybe not as difficult as people have thought.” Then he poisoned the well by moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, giving up a possible bargaining chip that could lubricate a bigger deal. ....
https://www.newsandguts.com/flirting-dis...policy-one-one/

"Wer nicht der Meinung ist, dass etwas Werdendes ohne jeglichen eigenen Willen und ein ohne feste Verbindung zu einem anderen lebenden Körper nicht (über)lebensfähiges Etwas bereits ein Mensch sei, der sollte eine Abtreibung durchführen dürfen.
Für die anderen darf sie strafbewehrt sein."

Könnte Ihnen so passen! Gesetzgebung ad hominem hat nichts mit Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu tun.

"Im Falle von Abtreibungspraxen will man nun hierzulande von dieser ehernen Regel abweichen. Das stimmt schon bedenklich."

Allerdings, zumal in einer Zeit in der die Menschen mit Information nur so zugemüllt werden. Die Forderung nach "Informationsfreiheit" ist daher in diesem Fall (feministische ) politische Agitation reinsten Wassers.

Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #3260

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Abtreibung ist definitiv Mord..

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Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #3260

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Es braucht dazu keine geistigen Veitstänze, um das künstlich anders zu deuten.
Es ist Mord, weil es bewusst und vorsätzlich geschieht.

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Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #3260

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Die andere Seite ist, ob das legal oder legitim sein sollte.
Sollte Mord unter bestimmten Umständen legal und legitim sein?

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Zitat von Corto im Beitrag #3268

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"Im Falle von Abtreibungspraxen will man nun hierzulande von dieser ehernen Regel abweichen. Das stimmt schon bedenklich."

Allerdings, zumal in einer Zeit in der die Menschen mit Information nur so zugemüllt werden. Die Forderung nach "Informationsfreiheit" ist daher in diesem Fall (feministische ) politische Agitation reinsten Wassers.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #3264

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Ireland Votes To Repeal Abortion Amendment In Landslide Referendum
Irish women will no longer have to travel to the United Kingdom to end their pregnancies.

The landmark referendum heralds a new era for women’s rights in a government that for centuries operated as a theocracy. Ireland’s parliament is now expected to write a more liberal law on the procedure, which will likely allow a woman to complete an abortion until up to 12 weeks of pregnancy.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/res...4b0802d69cb2cff

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Hmm, einen Erfolg hat die Maas-Reise nach Washington gezeitigt: Das Ministerchen ist nicht von Trump, Mattis und Pompeo zum Frühstück verspeist worden. :-)

Trump’s land of delusion: Disregard the sycophants; the wheels are coming off, if they were ever on
Bluffers bluff, and President Trump just tried to bluff his way through one of the worst weeks of his administration.
It's not working. Donald Trump is a terrible poker player. His tells are so clumsily obvious and that we mistakenly give him credit for guile where none exists, and for some cinematic, supervillain cunning where there is only a howling, feral mass of insecurity and need.

The delta between reality and spin with Trump is always broad, and last week it was unspinnably vast. It's also been a stunning illustration of just how powerful the division between reality and fantasy has become in the two hermetic media silos that now exist in America.
For some Americans — a minority, I pray — Trump is a pied piper luring the credulous and the uninformed into accepting lies over truth, comfort over reality and conspiracy over fact. In Trump's world and that of his angry minions, the winning doesn't stop, the vast left-wing conspiracy's witch-hunt against him is both broad and insidious, and the truth is what he wants it to be on any given day.

Maintaining the Trump illusion requires an endless suspension of disbelief; denying facts, logic, reason, the law and the utterly evident cluster-you-know-what that this administration represents. ...

The denials from Team Trump that they have anything to do with Russia, their assertions that they have no business in Russia, didn't collude with Russia, didn't coordinate with Russia, never borrowed money from Russians, didn't accept dirt on Hillary Clinton from Russia, don't know any Russians, have never met any Russians and have never heard of the country of Russia ring more hollow with every revelation.
The vise squeezing Cohen is tightening, and every day that passes increases the chances he'll turn Judas on his friend and boss. Trump knows what Cohen knows, and what Cohen knows about Trump's business dealings, finances, taxes, serial infidelities, hush money to adult film stars (and Lord knows who else) isn't pretty.

Something else happened last week, and it wasn't just bad for Trump. It was bad for the world.
Trump's diplomatic pratfall on North Korea forced a pullout from the summit he had sold as the best thing since Trump University, and came just weeks after his breathless followers demanded that the Nobel Institute give Trump the Peace Prize. They did everything but fuel up Air Force One for a trip to Oslo, believing the deal to strip North Korea of its nuclear arsenal and intercontinental ballistic missiles to be done (Trump had basically tweeted as much), with nothing left to do but raise a champagne toast in Singapore.

Almost no one in the diplomatic, military or intelligence community believed for a moment that Kim Jong Un would fulfill his promises; Kim is a con man, conning a con man. Trump never understood that he is the mark in this con game, played by Kim with a helpful assist from Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Of course, North Korea never, ever intended to give up its nuclear arsenal, to end its long history of murderous oppression of its suffering people, or in any other way give Trump a diplomatic win. Kim's bad faith was never a question to anyone but Trump. It was a certainty. Furthermore, China never intended to help Trump win a major diplomatic victory, or to unify Korea.

No, Trump fans, it's not 87-dimensional chess. There's no secret plan, no hidden strategy. Trump is a man who sees everything through the dumb lens of reality television, New York tabloid spritzing, professional wrestling kayfabe and an utterly misplaced belief that he is a master negotiator.
He's a man of notably grotesque ignorance who refuses to read even the crayon picture-book version of the President's Daily Brief, and who is contemptuous of both the intelligence community and American diplomats.

Of course the Multi-dimensional Chess Club is insisting that even Trump's most evident and egregious failures are part of some subtle, esoteric master plan that only he can perceive. While earlier this month they were cheering for the Trump Nobel Peace Prize, last week they were cheering his "my nuke is bigger than your nuke" threats and claiming this was his plan all along.

His North Korean reaction was pure emotion, all impulse and no judgment. Just like his responses to Cohen's new perils, the looming Mueller investigation, the failures of his superstar legal team to close down the Russia probe, his desire to corrupt and suborn the Justice Department and the intelligence community to protect him from the special counsel are all signs of his contempt for the rule of law.

Your rational mind knows why Trump is doing all of this, but the stress of seeing him lure 40% of the American people into a trap from which there is no escape is often painful to watch. As an anthropologist of Trump and Trumpism, sometimes I feel as if the best thing I do is to remind you that it's all a lie.

No matter how much he spins it, no matter how many cute brand names and catchphrases he tries to jam into the media flow, at his core, Donald Trump is a man in a rising sea of legal peril, political risk and catastrophic failures. This explains his increasingly erratic behavior and dangerous efforts to corrupt the special counsel process, the Justice Department, and American institutions more broadly.

We can be dragged down into Trump's wilderness of mirrors , or we can take a deep breath and appreciate just how truly terrible his week was. With Trump, it's always the worst week, since the last week.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump...ticle-1.4010243

Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #3260

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Abtreibung ist definitiv Mord.

Es braucht dazu keine geistigen Veitstänze, um das künstlich anders zu deuten.
Es ist Mord, weil es bewusst und vorsätzlich geschieht.

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Zitat von Leto_II. im Beitrag #3274

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Zitat von Nadine im Beitrag #3260

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Abtreibung ist definitiv Mord.

Es braucht dazu keine geistigen Veitstänze, um das künstlich anders zu deuten.
Es ist Mord, weil es bewusst und vorsätzlich geschieht.

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Da fehlt noch was in der Tatbestandskette, "Niedere Beweggründe", "Heimtücke" oder "Gemeingefährlichkeit". Kann man natürlich jeder Schwangerschaftsabrecherin unterstellen.

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