Really,
he's got no one to blame but himself for finding himself in this story:
In fact, most people do not lie, said Michael Sachs, an exercise
psychologist at Temple University. That is one reason athletes often are
so outraged when they catch someone who fibs about his or her
performance in a competition...
So
it should come as no surprise that Representative Paul D. Ryan, the
Republican vice-presidential nominee, was called out recently when he
told a radio interviewer he had run a marathon in around 2 hours 50
minutes...
...his actual time in the marathon he was referring to, the
1990 Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minn., was 4 hours 1 minute, for an
average pace of 9 minutes 12 seconds a mile...
Mr. Ryan is not alone, of course, in substantially misstating his achievement... “They want to present
themselves in an overly optimistic way,” said Dan Ariely, a behavioral
economics professor at Duke who has studied lying...
“People find excuses,” Dr. Ariely said, and those who dissemble often start believing their own lies.
Cross-posted at The Political Environment.
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