Estonian researchers claim that magnets can either force you to lie or make it impossible. Subjects in the study had magnets placed on the left or right side of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and the results suggest that the individual was unable to tell the truth or unable to lie depending on which side was stimulated. Extract from the article: Last year, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also used strong magnets to disrupt the area said to be the brain of moral compass , located behind the right ear, which makes least temporarily moral people.