As it turns out, I’m not alone. It is an empirical fact that most people lie quite regularly. A 1996 study by Dr. Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, revealed that most people are liars. She studied 147 people between the ages of 18 and 71 and found that most of them lied at least once or twice a day. She discovered that college students lied to their mothers in one of every two conversations---a figure that, when considered, is pretty believable. Another study, cited in The Day America Told the Truth, revealed that it’s not just moms to whom people lies as 75 percent of people lie to their friends, 73 percent to their siblings, and 69 percent to their spouses. And, as an aside, I should mention that most are actually rather adept at this, given that about three out of every four lies go undetected.