People lie best at a young age

According to a new study by the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), adolescence is the most lie age, but the ages of 18-29 are the most successful lie phases. Children 6-8 and older people over 60 are the most honest and have the least lie skills.

In the study, 1,005 people aged 6-77 were asked how many times they lied in the last 24 hours. As a result, the average lie frequency is 2 times / day. This number gradually increases and peaks in the bar - teenage period with an average of 2.8 times / day, then gradually decreases.

For adults, parents always have a headache because of their lies.(Photo: Huffington Post).

To know which age groups are the most compelling lie, researchers ask participants to answer yes / no questions, there are also obvious things like "flying pigs" and measuring the time to answer each question. Why does the response time involve lies?

Researchers hypothesize that in order to lie successfully, we must have the ability to "suppress" the truth immediately and take into account the situation of lying, but not be allowed to stutter or stop.

" Usually when people lie, people handle more slowly and make more mistakes. This is considered an indicator of the difficulty of lying," said Professor Bruno Verchuere, University of Amsterdam.

Adolescent - adolescent has the best control, because this is the age at which the prefrontal cortex is most active. Young children have not completed that ability because the prefrontal cortex is not fully developed. After age 25, this part of the brain will work poorly.