Looking for the Lie
From the New York Times magazine
Written by: Robin Marantz Henig

Henig writes an interesting article, where he takes time explaining how we can catch liars and findings related to lying. Even though, there are many techniques to try to determine if someone is lying. Sometimes we miss out dangerous liars. Lie detectors are very old modern technology, so they would need to be upgraded, where they can even detect the dangerous liars too.

This article helps the audience to understand better about the topic of lying. For instance, they think they always can spot liars. That’s not true. Basically, this article helps educating the audience in some areas where the audience often misunderstands. This article also eager the audience since it delivers interesting scientific facts and information.
The audience’s interests in this topic may be the Langleben’s experiment findings – his question (“can the difference in brain activity between lie and truth be detected by functional M.R.I?) got me thinking. I actually think that’s possible, because of the brain mapping and the differential activities shown.

I learned the new interesting information about the connection made between lie, brain changes, and the sweat response. It’s based on guilt, anxiety, fear or the excess positive emotion.

I am wondering if there is another alternative lie detector that can be used to detect liars. Sometimes we need liars in our society in order to protect our loved ones from knowing the truth. To cover truth may be the best policy for some situations. For example, soldiers are highly trained liars to hide truth from the enemies.

My concern may be the audience gains more knowledge about lie that also change their perspectives. What I mean is the audience may start losing trust in others. But this article may help the audience realizing tell lies can be dangerous or harm others.

I am trying to understand why liars have to lie when we are the ones who always tell the truth. Some think lying is harmless, some don’t think lying is addiction, and some think lying is a better way to avoid things.

I also am wondering what liars will say after they read this article, will they be in denial?