But spewing the truth all the time comes with its own cost—and can hurt other people. “Shutting up for a while has certainly softened me,” Michael Leviton wrote in 2021. “These days, I try to save my ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, lying helped our ancestors survive. In competitive social environments, the ability to ...

When you can build a culture of constructive honesty, you are walking away from the false narrative of little white lies to ...

We tell white lies and rationalize in ways that bend or break the truth. UC San Diego’s Kalichman cited a Harvard study involving students taking timed exams of simple math problems.

CNBC recently aired a fantastic new documentary called (Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies. In addition to describing some great psychological research on lying and self-deception, the film ...

The enjoyable, relatable documentary "(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies" takes a pointed look at the ways, big and small, that deceit infuses and often determines our life course.

The most dangerous people among us don’t care about truth-telling or lying. They simply put out whatever kind of line of “bullshoes” that they believe will get them what they want.