Researchers find magnetic brain stimulation appears to make lying more difficult
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 09:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- People have been lying to one another likely for as long as they have been able to communicate, and for likely just as long, people have been trying to figure out a way to get the truth out of someone suspected of lying. Now, new research by Inga Karton and Talis Bachmann, both of Estonia, have found that there might be a way to nudge people into being a little more honest when asked questions. Using powerful magnets, as they describe in their paper published in Behavioural Brain Research, applied to the forehead so as to impact the functioning of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, appears to impact the ease with which a person can lie.