Truth: Everybody lies.

http://www.memecreator.org/meme/honesto-promise

beLIEve me!

Have you ever NOT lie in one day? By simply saying you feel alright when you're really not, or when you say you don't have an extra coin in your hand when somebody asks though you have more than one, deception has always been running in the nature of a human. In some point of the conversation, people tend to either put more or less sugar in it in order to earn better feedback about oneself.

Interpersonal deception theory never fails to amaze me when it sets itself to the truthfulness of reality. We thought that lying (interpersonal deception as I consider in this article) never gets good results. But guess what subconsciously, we tend to lie in every second that we give ourselves good impact to others in our daily conversations with them. 

Believe me -- one of the few universal truths in life is that everybody lies.   

-- James Hearnn

 Interpersonal deception theory (IDT) arose out of just this concern that deception be examined within the nexus of interpersonal encounters. It was formulated to contextualize an explanation of deceptive communication in what we know about conversation. This
approach stands in contrast to more psychological explanations for deceptive communication. It also draws attention to the dynamic nature of deception displays and to the mutual influence between sender and receiver that occurs in all conversations. (Burgoon, Buller; Interpersonal Deception Theory) 

Following the lead of others who study verbal deceit, Buller and Burgoon label these three strategies falsification, concealment, and equivocation. The three dif­fer in that falsification creates a fiction, concealment hides a secret, and equivoca­tion dodges the issue. Yet all three messages fall under the umbrella concept of deception, which Buller and Burgoon define as "a message knowingly transmitted by a sender to foster a false belief or conclusion by the receiver." (Em Griffin, A First Look at Communication Theory)

We tend to add up to something that reality doesn't really have. Whether it's for good or not, we lie for the sake of our self-contentment. And in different ways, deception has always been present in the mouth of a human being. May it be for the appraisal of a friend's work when it's really not as good as you said it to be, it's deception. Creating some untruthful ideas that would please other is just one of the many ways of deception. The hurtful fact that people can't always be true is one major concern of this theory. With Burgoon and Buller explaining and giving more specific examples of deception in an interpersonal communication, it just makes me realize how truth can hurt a bit and lie that can hurt more. It's just so interesting that Burgoon and Buller sited ways on how to detect and decipher deceivers and how to actually be good at it. Nonetheless, even the smallest of all lies can hurt the most. So better keep in mind to always seek for the truth and stick with it, especially in a world full of great deceivers.

References:

http://borders.arizona.edu/cms/sites/default/files/Burgoon%20Buller_Interpersonal%20Deception%20Theory_in%20Seiter%20%20Gass.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1996.tb00127.x/abstract

http://www.afirstlook.com/docs/interpersdecep.pdf

http://www.mediate.com/articles/hearnj1.cfm