Slippery slope: Telling small lies desensitizes your brain to self-serving dishonesty

Telling small lies desensitises your brain to the associated negative emotions and may encourage you to tell bigger lies in the future, suggests new research at University College London.The research provides the first empirical evidence that self-serving lies gradually escalate and shows how this happens in our brains.The team scanned volunteers' brains while they took part in tasks where they could lie for personal gain. They found that the amygdala, a part of the brain associated with emotion