Paradigmatic examples of lies (including white lies such as “mmm your homemade hummus tastes great”) are Level 2.
I read the hummus one as being most likely level 4. It’s not (by my read) being said to convince someone that their hummus tastes great, but to make them feel good about themselves, the speaker, and the relationship between the two of them.
Hmmm, idk. I think at least some of the time it’s level 2, in my experience. Yes the goal is to make them feel good, but the mechanism is by making them think the hummus tastes good. (Maybe in some cases it’s common knowledge that you’d say it tastes good even if it was horrible & that all you really mean therefore is “go team us” but I think that’s atypical.)
I read the hummus one as being most likely level 4. It’s not (by my read) being said to convince someone that their hummus tastes great, but to make them feel good about themselves, the speaker, and the relationship between the two of them.
Hmmm, idk. I think at least some of the time it’s level 2, in my experience. Yes the goal is to make them feel good, but the mechanism is by making them think the hummus tastes good. (Maybe in some cases it’s common knowledge that you’d say it tastes good even if it was horrible & that all you really mean therefore is “go team us” but I think that’s atypical.)