Telling Lies? Science Says Do It on a Full Bladder

Now those among you who want to lie need to ensure that your bladders are full before you begin. That is, if you want to lie convincingly.

And that is the truth.

A new study  that will soon be published in 'Consciousness and Cognition' in December explains the link between the two.

Researchers gathered different people who had drunk different amounts of water and were aksed to tell lies to interviewers. The scientists found that people with more water in their bladders were better at lying!

Who exactly can be a good liar? There were two groups of observers who watched the experiment. While one group looked at and judged the body language and confidence of the subjects, the other had to just identify the lies from the truth.

It was found that those who had full bladders narrated more complex lies, and also did them convincingly, according to RT.

Observers were able to determine the lie only 30 per cent of the time.

"Lying is a very difficult task," said Iris Blandon-Gitlin, co-author of the study. "You have to juggle a lot of information."

Gitlin surmised that perhaps a full bladder may stoke some inhibition control centers in the brain, according to The Guardian, whereas anyone who lies well needs to make the brain inhibit the urge to tell the truth.

"They are subjectively different but in the brain they are not. They are not domain-specific. When you activate the inhibitory control network in one domain, the benefits spill over to other tasks," she said, according to hngn.