Seeking arrangements: lies and the $10,000 truth
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From politicians to couch potatoes, everyone hiding a love secret squirms when allegations of infidelity surface. In the Mark, Maria, and Jenny triangle the story became clear when the Governor fessed up and told the truth — he wasn’t hiking but rather jet-setting to Argentina.
With John, Elizabeth, and Rielle, a DNA test was "the truth."
In the never-ending search for love online, there is lots of press these days about sugar babies, sugar mommas, and sugar daddies. Now there is even a seeking arrangements group for "married or single". The problem with many of these sites — they allow for infidelity. One boasts "married or single" and another only caters to married men. One of the arrangements you might seek is with a married man or woman. As if we haven’t had enough infidelity this year already.
When brain mapping becomes commonplace, I wonder if we will all own little "lie detectors" in which we place our pinky and in minutes a little image scan reveals truth?
We are all guilty of the little white lie which sometimes becomes like tumbleweed that keeps on rolling along. But what happens if the stakes are high, and you need to prove your innocence, in a pricey divorce case, for example?
For about $10,000 there is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that can trace a lie by pinpointing an area of the brain where lies originate and truth prevails.
Findings from the Brain Mapping Center at UCLA, published in the Annals of Neurology, show how neuroimaging can help distinguish belief, disbelief and uncertainty in real time. David Langleben, M.D., a University of Pennsylvania neurologist and psychiatrist, said on National Public Radio: “Three areas of the brain generally become more active during deception.”
Essentially, he said, it takes more brain activity to tell a lie “than when you just say the truth.”
I wonder if in her of hearts Jenny Sanford had that sinking feeling that her husband had lied to her about hiking.? When did Elizabeth Edwards face the fear that her husband fathered another woman’s child?
Researchers at Yale say that when a marriage is not right, a woman knows and hurts inside until the truth comes to set her free. Two women, two lives, two families all watching the truth surface — but perhaps "freedom" has a sad ring.
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