A couple of possibilities. First, people tell "little white lies" intended to protect the feelings of others from harm all the time. Perhaps more empathetic people just tell lies to protect others' feelings. A weirder possibility is that more empathetic people have...
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more trouble actually telling what is and isn't true, which leads to both (somewhat accidentally) saying untrue things, which the experimenters recorded as lies, and to failing to discern lies. Alternatively, they're just liars but bad at detecting lies.
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If you assume others detect lies as well/poorly as you do, then a good detector will tell fewer.
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@Creaturenoises funny seeing this after our conversation yesterday! -
Ha! No way
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What measures did they use for empathy?
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If you are bad at detecting lies you might also fail to detect your own lies before telling them
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