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If you're lying, it must be afternoon.  No, I'm not implying that you're a liar.  But if you are, you most likely do it in the afternoon, according to a new study . Researchers conducted tests on college students where they would earn money if they answered questions a certain way.  Initially the students didn't know that they would receive anything .But once they found out, they, of course, answered that way even when the answer they chose they knew was wrong. What was learned? Students who participated in the morning session - between 8 am and noon - cheated less, compared with the group who participated between noon and 6 pm. The researchers called this occurrence the "morning morality effect.," m edicalnewstoday.com reports. In another experiment, the researchers presented morning and afternoon participants with word fragments, including "_ _ R A L" and "E _ _ _ C _ _." "Students in the morning group were more likely to spe...

Ever heard someone say she's weighed down by guilt?  Well, it's true.  You can actually feel the solidness of guilt. According to medicalnewstoday.com, " Researchers have shown, through a series of experiments, that the heaviness of guilt is a very real thing. They found evidence that the emotions attached to guilt can be "grounded in subjective bodily sensation." Researchers looked at something called "embodied cognition," which they say looks at how "thoughts and emotions can interact with the body to guide behavior," medicalnewstoday.com reports. The study examined three ways in which guilt is often experienced -- whether unethical acts increased subjective experiences of weight If feelings of guilt explain this effect, and Whether the weight of guilt brings any consequences. Researchers asked participants to recall something unethical they had done in the past, "including lying, stealing or cheating." Later, in a ...

It's probably exactly what we (I) thought.  Andrew Weiner was only sorry when he was caught.  According to a new study , cheaters get a real high from deceiving others, except when they're caught. "People who get away with cheating when they believe no one is hurt by their dishonesty are more likely to feel upbeat than remorseful afterward, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association," newswise.com reports. Wait.  His wife was hurt, and most likely, when he's older, his child. So he doesn't count.  Anywhere. But most people who cheat don't want to hurt anyone, or so, research says.  They just want to get away with something.  And who doesn't know that feeling? Or, as the Web site puts it, "Behaving unethically may lead to feeling better than being guilt-free."  Although most people predict they will feel bad after cheating or being dishonest, many of them don’t, reports the study published online. ...