Study: People lie more in the afternoon

    Study: People lie more in the afternoon

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Utah study, published in the journal Psychological Science , having noticed they conducted experiments on lying , cheating and stealing resulted in fewer cases of unethical behavior in the morning.

From previous studies , they knew that the lack of comfort and repeated the decision - making process can lead to low self - control , so the researchers wanted to examine whether the usual activities during the day will be enough to increase the dishonest behavior .

The researchers conducted four experiments involving undergraduate students and a sample of adults in the United States.

For the first experiment , presented to the college students made ​​patterns of dots on a computer , and they then determine whether more dots appeared on the left or right side of the screen.