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The Nose Knows | Duck Quacks Don’t Echo


when you lie your temperature rises and
your nose gets hot roll it you’ll see
what I mean if Pinocchio were a real boy
he would have made a terrible poker
player first of all he’s too young to
gamble and second of all he looks awful
in sunglasses oh yeah also every time he
bluffed his nose would grow talk about
it tell weirdly though when we humans
lie our noses also undergo a
physiological change no they don’t grow
but they get warmer some scientists call
this phenomenon you guessed it the
Pinocchio effect recent research has
shown that when we lie our nose
temperature rises these effects could
have something to do with the insula a
region of the brain involved in the
detection and regulation of our body’s
temperature lying seems to boost
activity in this area there seems to be
a strong negative correlation between
insel activity and temperature change
the more active the insula the greater
the feeling the lower the temperature
and vice versa for this one will need a
special thermographic camera and a
certified liar someone who is well
versed in the art of BS not him he’s
dead we need a non-political figure
someone who makes his living by bluffing
his opponents like professional poker
player Jared Jaffee perfect now we just
need someone to apply pressure to really
turn the screws an interrogator great
this is gonna be good we put them in our
duck quacks don’t echo interrogation
room where our text had already set up
the thermographic camera meanwhile in
the observation room we were all set to
monitor the data we instructed our poker
player to randomly lie throughout the
interrogation later when we play back
the video we’ll be able to see if his
nose really got hotter when he lie
really bad cop do your thing what’s your
name Jared Jaffee age 32 best friend’s
name in high school Shane like man or
breast man
leg it was the blonde one Starsky or
hutch hutch how many times have you
cheated on your girlfriend Jared twas uh
someone should tell her interrogator
that this is just a little science
demonstration oh is this guy committed
to his role or what anyway next it was
time to analyze the data we brought our
poker player back into the observation
room and we played the interrogation
asking him to tell us which answers were
lies but did his nose get warmer when he
fibbed red means he’s lying
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