Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder 364
Ant writes "This Wired News article says it seems to take more brain effort to tell a lie than to tell the truth according to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. Lying caused activity in the frontal part of the brain -- the medial inferior and pre-central areas, as well as the hippocampus and middle temporal regions and the limbic areas. Some of these are involved in emotional responses. During a truthful response, the fMRI showed activation of parts of the brain's frontal lobe, temporal lobe and cingulate gyrus."
Pants of fire (Score:5, Funny)
Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Useless against /. Folk (Score:5, Funny)
Ok then (Score:5, Funny)
Ah finally an explanation... (Score:4, Funny)
- I run a 40-yard dash in 2 seconds
- I compleded college by the age of 18
- I have climbed the Everest - naked
- I became Mr Universe AND Miss Universe, in the same year
Beavis... (Score:3, Funny)
Speaking of lying... (Score:4, Funny)
MS's "Get the Facts"
http://m3.doubleclick.net/790463/mrs03111_VeriTes
Oh the irony!
Maybe that content-based advertising system really does work!
Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
There are some brains in US reachin the abs. max (Score:0, Funny)
Pastor/Brother George Bush and some of his engineers are reaching the absolute infinity temperature
God bless US of Jesus ( formerly USA )
Laid (Score:3, Funny)
whew. I'm pooped.
Dub'ya (Score:3, Funny)
Doctor: Ok, put the probes on the president, Norma.
Norma: They are on, sir.
Doctor:
Norma: Yes sir, they're on tight.
Doctor: Mr. Bush, can you please tell us why we are at war with Iraq.
Dub'ya: They are a terrorist harboring nation with weapons of mass destruction! Yeehaw!
Doctor: Norma, can you turn down the sensor sensitivity, please? My reader just crashed.
Dub'ya: Yee-haw!!
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
The quote at the bottom of the page: (Score:2, Funny)
"One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true."
It's soo true! I do *ALL* the damn work around here.
I can see it now (Score:4, Funny)
S: "Sweet!"
R: "Just lie down under this scanner..."
S: "Is this gonna give me cancer?"
R: "No no, it's perfectly safe. Just a moment... ok, main screen turn on."
S: "Can I go now?"
R: "No, first you have to tell me who fired the gun"
S: "What gun?"
R: "The gun that was fired about 10 minutes ago"
S: "But I only just got here!"
R: "Is that so... where were you 10 minutes ago?"
S: "I was on Slashdot!"
R: "You're lying!"
FBI busts down the door, carts the test subject off to Cuba. Another day, another victory in the War On Terror.
Re:No shit (Score:5, Funny)
You've never worked with sales people, have you?
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thinking (Score:5, Funny)
So... (Score:4, Funny)
You're fired (Score:4, Funny)
You're fired.
And these are not the droids I'm looking for.
Move along. Move along.
.
Hey hey!... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Err, of course? (Score:5, Funny)
Says the guy who went by a pseudonym.
Surprised (Score:4, Funny)
Re:On the contrary (Score:1, Funny)
will this be the new fad diet? (Score:1, Funny)
I wanna call my diet "Lie Your ASS Off". literally. =)
This explains... (Score:3, Funny)
At first, I thought it was due to exceptionally high intelligence. Now we know "the rest of the story."
Dr. Tim
Re:Don't forget the hippocampus! (Score:2, Funny)