There’s no need for parents to bust the Santa myth. Children figure out the truth themselves, at a developmentally appropriate time. In the process, they build their reasoning skills.
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People lie because it is more likely to get them what they want.
We gave four scholars from different disciplines a chance to offer their opinions on this important question.
Psychologists observed young children in real time figuring out how not to tell the truth.
Why do some people fall for the lamest April Fool’s pranks and others see straight through them?
Alternate realities don’t just exist in politics – and not all falsehoods are lies. Distortions of the truth can range from a normal part of human nature to pathological.
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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