David Cooper

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Remember when George Costanza said, it's not a lie if you believe it.

Coming up after the break, can you lie to yourself so well that your brain believes it but your body somehow doesn't?

There's a new study that says your sweat glands might be the ultimate fact checker.

Details in a few moments.

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We all know what lying to other people feels like, but what about those strange moments where you're not quite lying, you're just very optimistic about your own greatness.

You're deceiving yourself even.

Turns out your body might know what's really going on when that happens.

I'm here with Giulia Romano Cappi, a researcher in social neuroscience at the University of Turin in Italy, who studied this.

Giulia, welcome to the show.

So self-deception, what do we mean when we say that?

What might I be doing if I act in self-deception?

Yeah, so we're talking to friends and we're bragging about something, but maybe we exaggerate a little bit too much.