WE HAVE a subconscious ability to recognise people who are likely to cheat or double-cross us.
Scientists at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, took pictures of people playing a game called the prisoner’s dilemma, where you can either cooperate with an unknown partner to share a reward, or try to cheat the partner out of the whole reward. These pictures were later shown to students in another experiment.
Without knowing who had done the dirty, the students were more likely to remember cheats’ faces when they saw their pictures a second time, suggesting there is something detectable about a dishonest…
