Is there a part of a person's neurological make-up (brain) that enable's them to lie?

Question

I am interested to know, whether people learn how to lie, or have a neurological part of their brain that covers the ability for some people to lie (and believe completely in their own lies)?

Answer 1

That's not an either/or. You know how diifcult it is to train some children to speak the truth. Some of us come into this world with more of a tendency to be truthful than others. Scientists call it genes, spiritual folk call it karma, astrologers say it's in your stars -- three lenses to look at the same phenomenon.

That said, every speech form is a learned behaviour. Put a person in an environment where lying seems to pay off (a typical urban school, for example) and they will likely learn to lie.

And, yes, after they have learned it a neuroscientist can measure and identify the transmitters in the brain that are activated. We have billions of connections in our brains, and when we behave we use some of them. A behaviour that is repeated often deepens the grooves in the brain for itself, making it easier to repeat that behaviour. In common language, we call this "forming a habit". Once a behaviour, such as lying, has been learned it takes effort to retrain oneself to a new behaviour, such as truth-telling. Anyone can do it, but not in a day or two.

There is a small but not negligible minority of people who find lying particularly easy because the pathways in their brains for empathy are blocked. If one has little or no sensitivity to another's emotions, it is difficult or impossible to be aware that lying can be hurtful, or that it matters if it is hurtful. (In many cases, such people are also unconnected to their own emotions.) The psychological term for such personalities is "psychopathic". I suspect that the main cause of such personality patterns is war and similar traumas, where people (mostly men) shut down emotionally in order to be able to cope with killing..... but I cannot prove it because it may often be a carryover into the present personality from a war in a recent past life.

Answer 2

I ought to admit to being a leg and backside guy. But extra importantly does she have a type face, guffawing eyes and a husky voice. Sorry fell in love with Doris Day at a tender age.

Answer 3

It is our own will, our chooser, our decision-maker that enables us to lie. We do it to ourselves, theres no physical area of the brain that controls lies, it is our own conscious effort that does it.

Answer 4

People are pathologically wired to lie and they keep lying through their lives till their death.some people just pick up the habit and they keep lying,they think they can get away with it. they do learn to lie, and once they know that that people are accepting their lies , they keep lying, because they think they can get away with it.