April 4th is National Tell a Lie Day
“Liar, liar, pants on fire, Your nose is longer than a telephone wire” Written on a napkin and picked up by the garage band, the Castaways, in 1965, Liar Liar was their first and only hit single. As we have come to realize, there are all sorts of liars. There are liars by omission and those who are compulsive, narcissistic, pathological, and sociopathic. Their lies come in all shapes and sizes as do the cowards who tell them. What happens to a human’s brain when we tell a lie? Studies have shown that the amygdala, the part of the brain that is associated with emotion, is stimulated when someone tells a lie for personal gain. And each time a lie…
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April 13, 2024
