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People may lie sometimes to appear honest if events that turned out in their favour seem too good to be true, according to a study. “Many people care greatly about their reputation and how they will be judged by others, and a concern about appearing honest may outweigh our desire to actually be honest, even in situations where it will cost us money to lie,” said Shoham Choshen-Hillel, a senior lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

In a recent turnout of events, Roger stone a long term ally of the US President Donald Trump has been found guilty on various counts of witness tampering and lying to the Congress by the court. It has been established that he lied to the Congress regarding his endeavours of the Russian-hacked emails, adversely affecting the 2016 election bid of Hillary Clinton. Stone, who has been the former advisor of Donald Trump was convicted on all seven counts, by way of an indictment which alleged of tampering witness, obstructing House investigation into the allegation of Russian coordinated Trump campaign and lying to the Congress in 2016.