People Lie with Sex on the Brain (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

People Lie with Sex on the Brain

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A new study shows the extent to which people will change their own opinions to conform to a stranger's, or lie about their number of past sexual partners, when the sexual systems of the brain have been activated.

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(University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster)

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