Truthfulness Requires No Act Of Will For Honest People, Neuroimaging Suggests
Jul 14th, 2009 | By buddy1 | Category: 35, Health & Wellness News, Mental HealthA new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation. Using neuroimaging, psychologists looked at the brain activity of people given the chance to gain money dishonestly by lying and found that honest people showed no additional neural activity when telling the truth, implying that extra cognitive processes were not necessary to choose honesty.
