Despite the common lesson that it's paramount to tell the truth, adults judged children who told blunt polite truths more negatively than they did liars in a recent study my colleague and I conducted.
Feb 9, 2023
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Most people lie occasionally. The lies are often trivial and essentially inconsequential—such as pretending to like a tasteless gift. But in other contexts, deception is more serious and can have harmful effects on criminal ...
Dec 4, 2020
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A widely adopted police interview technique, used by both the FBI and British police, to spot if a suspect is lying, is not fit for use, a report out today concludes. In fact, there is evidence that the technique helps liars ...
Oct 15, 2020
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Men are twice as likely as women to consider themselves to be good at lying and at getting away with it, new research has found.
Dec 20, 2019
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From the words for colours to how to tie a shoelace, kids have lots to learn—and for the most part, they depend on others to teach it to them.
Oct 8, 2014
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When it comes to detecting deceit, your automatic associations may be more accurate than conscious thought in pegging truth-tellers and liars, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Mar 24, 2014
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What happens when you tell a lie? Set aside your ethical concerns for a moment—after all, lying is a habit we practice with astonishing dexterity and frequency, whether we realize it or not. What goes on in your brain when ...
Sep 4, 2013
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Although we profess to hate it, lying is common, useful and pretty much universal. It is one of the most durable threads in our social fabric and an important bulwark of our self-esteem. We start lying by the age of 4 and ...
Jan 21, 2013
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Online daters intent on fudging their personal information have a big advantage: most people are terrible at identifying a liar. But new research is turning the tables on deceivers using their own words.
Feb 13, 2012
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Mark Frank has spent two decades studying the faces of people lying when in high-stakes situations and has good news for security experts.
Jul 14, 2011
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