Maybe you hate your friend’s new hairstyle, or you’d rather just stay in and watch Netflix rather than head out with the girls on Friday night? Well a new study has a tip to help you pull the wool over someone else’s lies... a full bladder. Trust us, you’re going to want to hear us out… The study, published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, found that people were more able to lie to an interviewer and better at evading detection of their fibs when they had a full bladder and desire to pee. Psychologists at California State University decided to delve deeper into how people were fooled into believing the fibs, and the results were… interesting. The researchers pointed to a theory known as ‘inhibitory sleepover effect’ – where the benefits and mannerisms of self-control in one task were easily adapted to a second task carried out at the same time. Think multi-tasking without the awareness. Study author Iris Blandon-Gitlin explains: “Lying requires a great deal of mental resources. Manipulation of information such as suppressing irrelevant thoughts - i.e. telling the truth - and providing a believable story while monitoring one’s and other’s behaviour, are among the tasks that the liar has to juggle. “Research has demonstrated that lying, much more than truth-telling, is a cognitive (mental) complex task that requires a great deal of inhibitory control. Having a full bladder might help someone lie better because it activates the same inhibition control centres in the brain.” So if we’re trying to focus on stopping ourselves needing to urinate, we can use that same pressure to make it easier to lie for us. Although after reading this, we might be a lot more likely to ask our other half to use the bathroom before any of those serious chats… H/T Mail Online via Consciousness and Cognition