Passage 1 (Items 7 – 8)

1     At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, psychology professorBella DePaulo got 77 students and 70 townspeople to volunteer for an unusualproject. All kept diaries for a week, recording the numbers and details of the liesthey told.
2     One student and six Charlottesville residents professed to have told nofalsehoods. The other 140 participants told 1,535.
3     The lies were most often not what most of us would call earth-shattering.Someone would pretend to be more positive or supportive of a spouse or friendthan he or she really was, or feign agreement with a relative‘s opinion.According to DePaulo, women in their interactions with other women lied mostly to spare others’ feelings. Men lied to other men generally for self-promotingreasons.
4     Most strikingly, these tellers-of-a-thousand-lies reported that theirdeceptions caused them ‘a     littlepreoccupationor regret.‘ Might that, too, be alie? Perhaps. But there is evidence that this attitude towards casual use of prevarication is common.
5     Think how often we hear the expressions “I‘ll call you” or “The check isin the mail” or “I‘m sorry, but he stepped out.” And then there are professionslawyers, pundits, public relations consultants—whose members seem tospecialize in shaping or spinning the truth to suit clients‘ needs.


According to DePaulo‘s study, which of the following is NOT true?