Is lying bad for your health?

Angel Cervantes

Angel Cervantes

Angel Cervantes said in his experience, lying creates more lies, which in turn, increases a person’s stress level.

Eddie Jurgens

Eddie Jurgens

Eddie Jurgens said he doesn’t believe that lying can have a physical effect on people. He said he lies a lot, and it has never caused him any physical problems.


Posted: Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:24 pm


Is lying bad for your health?

By MELISSA CADE
Daily Light staff writer

Waxahachie Newspapers Inc.

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Psychology professionals learned in a recent survey that telling fewer lies may be beneficial to people physically and mentally. The results of the survey determined that honesty might actually help people’s health.

During this “honesty experiment,” the group studied 110 people between the ages of 18-71 during the course of a 10-week period. Each week the test group went into the lab to complete health and relationship measures and to take a polygraph test. The test assessed the number of major lies and white lies they had told that week.

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