Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched.

Lying to employers and family about activities.

Within samples collected from the solid substances lying beneath the ice.

"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

"We as a society need to understand that, when we don't punish lying, we increase the probability it will happen again," Ariely says.

But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars一suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

Harvard cognitive neuroscientist Joshua Greene says, for most of us, lying takes work.

Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two.

Some experts even consider lying a developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, because it requires sophisticated planning, attention and the ability to see a situation from someone else5 s perspective to manipulate them.