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President Bush gives his annual State of the Union address on Januarary 31st. US voters will be watching Bush closely on television. We recently posted a story about scientific ways to spot spin among politicians. Now we have more scientific information on what to look for.

Movement analyst Karen Kohn Bradley studies the nonverbal and movement behaviors of political leaders. In order to detect political ?spin? (a polite synonym for “lies”), she says we should look for the following:
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Pathological liars have different brains from the rest of us, that are actually structured so that lying comes naturally. Psychologist Adrian Raine has discovered that these people have more white matter, and less gray matter, in their prefrontal cortex. This is the part of the brain where story telling?and lying?is located and it’s more active when people tell lies. White matter produces quick, complex thinking, while gray matter inhibits our baser instincts.
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