Your Cheating Face
If you’ve ever had the sneaking suspicion someone was lying to you, your instincts may well have been right. Scientists at Hokkaido University in Japan took pictures of people playing "prisoners’ dilemma," a game in which you can either cooperate with a partner to share a prize or try to cheat them out of the reward. When these pictures were later shown to subjects in another experiment, they were more likely to remember the faces of the cheats if they saw them a second time - suggesting we have a subconscious ability to detect a dishonest face.
