Liar beware, there is a new way to determine who is telling the truth. Aiden Gregg, a psychologist at England's University of Southhampton, has created a test (timed antagonistic response alethiometer - TARA) to determine when a lie is being told.
Gregg's test showed it takes 30 percent longer to tell a lie. This means if it takes 1.2 seconds to tell the truth, lying about the same subject matter will take 1.8 seconds. He hopes that this method might provide an alternative to the traditional polygraph test, which pinpoints lying based on physiological changes such as sweating and increased pulse. Research has shown that many habitual liars are finding ways to combat these methods and are outsmarting the test. By contrast, during laboratory testing, the TARA method was able to determine 85 percent of lies.
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