Once A Cheater Is Always A Cheater Or Why Do People Cheat?

What's worse than being deceived? When you are deceived many times. If your girlfriend or boyfriend cheated, chances are they will continue to do so. Because, it turns out, the human brain has the ability to adapt to lies. Deceiving, each time a person experiences less and less guilt about this, which is proven by science. Therefore, the saying "once a fraud is always a fraud" is really true.

The content of the article

• 1 The brain adjusts to dishonesty
• 2 Habit or dissocial disorder

The brain adjusts to dishonesty i

The study by Neil Garrett, Stephanie C Lazzaro, Dan Ariely and Tali Sharot, a group of psychologists from the universities of London and North Carolina, was published in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience. Scientific research has shown that every time a person lies, he feels less and less guilty, therefore, it becomes easier for him to do it again.

Researchers have found that this "adaptation to lying" happens because in the amygdala, where our emotions are formed, the negative reaction every time we are dishonest diminishes. Using functional MRI, the researchers noticed "decreased signaling in the amygdala during a history of dishonest behavior, consistent with adaptation."

It is like gaining immunity to the guilt feelings that a person should feel when knowingly telling a lie. The more lies accumulate, the stronger this immunity becomes.

Habit or Dissocial Disorder 2

“The first time we commit adultery, we feel disgusting. But next time it becomes easier for us to lie, and it becomes easier for us each time. As a result, we can commit adultery more habitually,”said study co-author Neil Garrett, professor at the Institute of Neurosciences at Princeton.

Researchers believe that a powerful factor preventing a person from cheating is their emotional response to the act. But the adaptation process reduces the intensity of such a reaction, thereby allowing the individual to cheat without a twinge of conscience.

The article also says: “You can consider two options for the constant lies of“serial liars”. Some at first feel bad about their deception, but they do it so often that they adapt to this lifestyle and no longer feel remorse from the act of their own fraud. Another possibility is that they do not initially feel guilty about the lies they have committed, so they do not need to adapt, which indicates sociopathy.