Lying can be more than just telling a few fibs. It can also be used to communicate social status and make a person appear loyal to a particular group.
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For a handful of French writers, the best fiction they wrote was their life story.
Understanding the distinction between bullshit and lying is essential. We can reveal a lie by uncovering the truth, but dealing effectively with bullshit is more complicated.
The UK government is introducing polygraph tests for convicted terrorists on probation.
Post-truth questions the very nature of truth itself – that’s why it’s so dangerous.
When a person or agency backed by the power and resources of the government tells a lie, it sometimes causes harm that only the government can inflict.
Is a 19th-century French author’s cosmic joke turning into a real-life global nightmare?
Ethology, social psychology and criminology can help us understand why humans lie and why scammer scam.
‘They might be a liar but at least they’re honest.’
We know that social media platforms have an incentive to promote whatever gets the most attention, regardless of its authenticity. We’re more reluctant to admit that the same is true of people.
What’s the role of someone who, like
Robert Mueller, speaks only facts in a tornado of partisan bombast? Is it a breath of fresh air or an abdication of responsibility to protect America’s interests?
Psychological phenomena like confirmation bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect make it easy for people to fall for deliberate or inadvertent lies in the news.
Michael Cohen wants you to know that throwing your kid a ball doesn’t make you a Red Sox pitcher. So he told lies, he says, but that doesn’t make him a liar. A rhetoric scholar dissects his argument.
Online lies can often be easy to detect, by searching for images and phone numbers and exploring social media profiles. Some people lie anyway – and countless others take the bait.
Not giving offence is what Christmas is all about.
It would be great to know for sure when someone is lying and when someone is telling the truth. But no technology that purports to do so is foolproof.
While Donald Trump’s election may seem to US voters to present unprecedented questions of legitimacy, such questions were first asked more than a century ago, in an election that turned on bicycles.
Children lying is rarely cause for concern and actually means your child is developmentally normal.
How did Trump came to be a symbol of national pride for evangelical Protestants who value strict morality and good manners? It has to do with their shared master narrative of white power and domination.
Perception of truth and lies changes between languages for bilingual speakers.
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
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Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Concordia University
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Research Associate, University of Manchester
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Dean of the Reed College of Media, West Virginia University
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Graduate Student in History, Northwestern University
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Intermittent Lecturer I in Information, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Oregon
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times., Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, Keele University
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Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University