Science of Honesty

.... is the name of the inter research programs.
Ingmar Bergman said, when man have been living in the lie (he was nazi), has man learned to love the truth.
Now is the shown to that, the truth shall make to be healthy.

Recent evidence indicates that Americans average about 11 lies per week. We wanted to find out if living more honestly can actually cause better health.

We found that the participants could purposefully and dramatically reduce their everyday lies, and that in turn was associated with significantly improved health,

said lead author Anita E. Kelly, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame.

According to this study, conducted the honesty experiment over 10 weeks with a sample of 110 people, of whom 34 percent were adults in the community and 66 percent were college students, the truth shall make to be better healthy.
The just-completed study has not yet undergone peer review and has yet to be published.
They ranged in age from 18 to 71 years, with an average age of 31.

Approximately half the participants were instructed to stop telling major and minor lies for the 10 weeks. The other half served as a control group that received no special instructions about lying. Both groups came to the laboratory each week to complete health and relationship measures and to take a polygraph test assessing the number of major and white lies they had told that week.

So, over the course of 10 weeks, the link between less lying and improved health was significantly stronger for participants in the no-lie group, the study found. 

Statistical analyses showed that this improvement in relationships significantly accounted for the improvement in health that was associated with less lying.For example, when participants in the no-lie group told three fewer white lies than they did in other weeks, they experienced on average about four fewer mental-health complaints, such as feeling tense or melancholy, and about three fewer physical complaints, such as sore throats and headaches, the study found.

At the end of the 10 weeks, participants in the no-lie group described their efforts to keep from lying to others in their day-to-day interactions. 

Some said they realized they could simply tell the truth about their daily accomplishments rather than exaggerate, while others said they stopped making false excuses for being late or failing to complete tasks. 

Others said that they learned to avoid lying by responding to a troubling question with another question to distract the person.

Good, we need that, 

We have a false relationship with our own history as a nation.

No one is saying what, such as Ingmar Bergman did: `I was a Nazi´.

(even though we were the only democracy in the world who fought alongside-axel with the Nazis. Still taboo).