The Pinocchio Effect

                         Pinocchio was a fictional character whose nose grew when he lied. BUT a new study suggest that your nose really does change when you fib. Graduate students at the University of Granada in Spain discoverd that subjects who were telling lies expierenced a jump in temperature near the nose  and in a muscle in the inner corner of the eye. They also noticed a drop in facial temperature in people performing mental tasks. This was the FIRST to combine thermography which is a technique for measuring and recording body heat that was developed in the U.S during World War 11- with the feild of psycology. In the future the researchers say that the study may help serve as the basis for a cheap and noninvasive test to ferret out fabricators and cheaters.

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Pinocchio nose grows