As a person who finds the brain one of the most
powerful things in the human body, I stumbled across a very intriguing article about how the brain can actually adapt to dishonesty. Journalists really know how to bring topics hardly thought about to our attention, because that sounds extremely interesting to me. This is really alarming, because most people can catch lies and can remind themselves that you can’t always trust what everyone says. Although this is what most of us think, the articles provides evidence that “ for a gradual escalation of self-serving dishonesty and reveal a neural mechanism supporting it. Behaviorally, we show that the extent to which participants engage in self-serving dishonesty increases with repetition. Using functional MRI, we show that signal reduction in the amygdala is sensitive to the history of dishonest behavior, consistent with adaptation” ( Neil Garret).
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