A study has shown that wide-faced men lie more than narrow-faced people, and are more likely to con others.
Cheryl McCormick, who conducted the study, said that the research may be useful to make snap judgments while encountering strangers, the Daily Star reported.
The research conducted on 150 men asked the respondents to complete a virtual dice-rolling task and were told that their score would be matched in lottery tickets.
The study found that one-fifth of the men lied about their score to win more tickets, with the majority of them being wide-faced men.
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