Lying can be an art, but it’s also a science. Researchers have taken a closer look at what happens to a person when they tell a lie and have found out exactly what occurs in an individual’s brain. Yet exactly what happens doesn’t just depend on lying in general–it depends on what type of lie the person tells.
There are, in general, two types of lies. There are false descriptions and false denials. While false descriptions are deliberate flights of the imagination that we invent for something didn’t happen, false denials are brief lies that actually deny something that happened. False descriptions, surprisingly, are far more easily remembered.