- [Voiceover] What you wear says a lot about you.
Fun socks?
You're a secret goofball.
Cargo shorts?
You value utility over beauty.
Um, this thing?
I don't know, let's move on.
Any way, one commonly held belief is
that certain colors are associated with certain values.
One claim you'll often hear is
that people associate the color blue with trustworthiness.
In an effort to test this out I decided to hit the streets
in my finest blues to see if people trusted me
when I lied to their faces.
It's basically like a psychology experiment.
- Psychology?
- Yeah.
I'm gonna get in your head.
[laughs]
- So here's what we're gonna do.
Here's a bag.
- Okay.
- It's got 52 cards in it.
Draw a card from this blue bag.
- Okay.
- Hand me the card,
don't look at the card Brian.
I'll tell you what's on the card
and I just need to know if you believe me, or not.
- Oh yeah. Okay.
- Those look like real cards.
This is not a magic trick, by the way.
- All right, I give you the card?
- Yeah.
Four of clubs.
Six of diamonds.
It's the Queen of spades.
Do you believe me Charlie?
- No.
- You don't?
- No.
- Yes.
- You believe me?
- Yes.
- I lied to you Mary.
[laughs]
- I believe you.
- Great.
- Yes.
- You believe me?
- You're lying?
- I am lying.
Way to go Flora.
- Thanks, sorry.
- But maybe have a little faith in humanity.
- You're telling the truth.
- Yeah, I do believe you.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- I was lying to you.
- Oh, jeez.
- It's a seven of spades.
- Yes.
- You believe me?
[laughs]
- Yeah, I really.
- I lied to you.
- Okay, you should do it again.
- Okay, you want to do it again?
- Yeah.
- Okay, I'm just going to lie to you again.
[laughs]
- So let's try again.
I'm lying to you?
- Yeah.
- You're right.
- I don't trust strangers.
I'm just kidding.
[laughs]
- That's fine, we're done.
- Yeah (in unison)
- You all believe me?
- Yeah.
- I lied, not one of them.
- Why would you lie?
- Why would I lie?
I don't know.
- You gain nothing from lying.
- But this could happen, ladies and gentlemen, to you.
- Wait, what?
- This could happen to you.
This can happen to you.
You can pull a card out this bag,
and he tells you it's a four of clubs,
and you might believe him.
- That's true.
Having talked to 10 people while wearing blue,
I decided to mix it up with red
to see what kind of difference it would make.
Okay, red shoes, red shirt.
I look like the devil.
I'm going to give you this red bag.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
No one's thanked me for that yet.
Don't look at it.
- Oh no.
- Don't look at it Kevin.
- No no, I'm not looking.
- It's a three of hearts.
- It's the seven of diamonds.
- King of diamonds.
- Lying.
- I'm lying, that was so quick.
[laughs]
- What do you mean I'm lying,
just right off the bat.
- No.
- Okay, you're right.
- I just trust my instincts.
- Okay.
- I think you are right.
- I lied to you Kevin.
- Ohhhh.
To a guy from Denmark.
- You're from Denmark?
- Yeah.
- Aw.
- You lied to Denmark, actually.
- Um, that's a lie.
- Is there any particular reason you didn't believe me?
- Womans intuition.
- Do you believe me?
- No.
- You don't believe me?
- Yeah.
- Well you're right, because I lied to you.
- Yeah.
- How does that make you feel?
- Nothing, actually.
- Nothing, you feel nothing?
- Yeah.
- I believe you.
That;'s very kind of you, but Rachel,
- Oh my God.
you can't just go around and listen to people with red bags.
- I say no either.
- Can I say no?
- You sir are telling the truth?
- I'm not.
- NO!
- I think you're lying.
- What is, where is the basis of that?
You guys didn't even discuss it.
Am I lying to you, or telling you the truth?
- Let me ask you a question.
- Okay.
- What did you have for breakfast this morning?
- Scrambled eggs.
- You're telling the truth.
- I'm not telling the truth.
I didn't have scrambled eggs
and this isn't the Queen of clubs.
- That's what I meant.
- That I was lying?
- Yeah.
But you didn't know,
because I was lying.
I just totally (bleeped) your whole thing up, didn't I?
- Cancel it.
It's over, we're done.
[laughs]
- [Voiceover] So there we have it.
Slightly more people trusted me
when I was sporting blue.
Does that mean you should dress from head to toe
in denim and run around town
spouting lies willy-nilly?
No, you creep.
Maybe just don't worry about it.
And be genuine, and honest,
and wear whatever you want.
Even, even that thing.
Thank you for playing.
I'm sorry this wasn't a magic trick.
- It's all right.
- Uh.
- It was fun.
- Do you mind, no you can't take that.
[laughs]
- Give me the bag.