If you must lie, drink
25 September 2015 - 02:33
If you want to tell someone a fib then make sure you have drunk a couple of pints of water, because scientists have found that we lie more convincingly when we need to tinkle. California State University researchers were investigating the "inhibitory spillover effect", which is when our focus on one task facilitates the performance of another.
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