美国圣母大学心理学研究人员对100名18~65岁的参试者进行了为期10周的跟踪调查。研究人员要求参试者停止说谎,然后每周都接受一次健康检测。结果表明,在研究期内,他们比往常少有紧张或悲伤感,而且更少发生嗓子痛或头痛等疾患。据此,研究人员得出结论:少说谎直接影响到人们的身体健康和心理健康的改善状况:相比而言,诚实的人会更健康。不久,法国巴黎大学医学院教授撤林撰文解释说,一个人说谎时,他的神经系统将受到不良影响。说谎常常引起人的交感神经兴奋,使大脑的正常功能不能完全发挥,容 Psychology researchers at the University of Notre Dame conducted a 10-week follow-up study of 100 participants aged 18 to 65 years. Researchers asked participants to stop lying and then undergo a weekly health checkup. The results showed that during the study period they were less stressed or sadly than usual and had fewer cases of sore throat or headache. Accordingly, the researchers concluded that less lying directly affects the improvement in people’s health and mental health: in comparison, honest people are healthier. Not long after, Professor Paris of Paris University School of Medicine in Paris explained that one’s own nervous system would be adversely affected when lying. Lying often causes sympathetic nervousness in the person so that the normal function of the brain can not be fully developed.