Brain gets used to lying – honest

LYING REALLY does get easier the more you do it.

While fibbing might feel uncomfortable at first, your brain becomes desensitized as the lies start piling up, a study published in Nature Neuroscience found.

Researchers at University College London tested dishonesty in 80 people while scanning their brains. The men and women were shown pennies in a jar and given incentives to lie to a partner about how much money was in the jar.

The study found that lying at first activated the amygdala, or the part of the brain that processes emotions and arousal. But each lie had less and less effect on the amygdala.