Pants on Fire

Inventor Joe Larson demonstrates the polygraph machine. Pictorial Parade/Getty Images

The truth is, we all lie ~ kind of a lot. It could be something as innocuous as "Your ochra pie was delicious" or as injurious as "I am not a crook." "Deception is a very complex human behavior," says Victoria Rubin, assistant professor of information and media studies at the University of Western Ontario, "and in spite of years of pondering over how to spot a lie, we humans are not very good at this task": http://whyfiles.org/2014/lies-and-liars-can-you-catch-them/