Study: People lie less in the morning

By Jerry Odumbe Otieno

A US study has found that people are more likely to be liars in the afternoon than any other time of the day. To arrive at this, scientists from Harvard University performed a number of experiments on undergraduate students.

 In one of the experiments, the participants were shown dotted patterns displayed on a screen and were asked to identify which side had more dots than the other.

The participants were then awarded money, however, not for getting the right answer but rather for the side of the screen that had more dots. The participants were left to bluntly cheat to get more money even when clearly there were more dots on the left side. It was discovered that students who participated in the morning were less likely to cheat as compared to those who participated in the afternoon onwards.