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Learning The Hard Truth About Lying
NPR: We all lie sometimes. But if you’re in the public eye, the lie can take on a life of its own. NBC’s Brian Williams became the victim of his own story last month, exaggerating
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The Science of Interrogation: Rapport, Not Torture
Chris Matthews, who hosts the MSNBC news program Hardball, is convinced that torture works. In the last two days, in the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s damning report on CIA interrogation practices, he has
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: The Morality of Larks and Owls: Unethical Behavior Depends on Chronotype as Well as Time of Day Brian C. Gunia, Christopher M. Barnes, and Sunita Sah In
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Some Types of Fables May Be Better at Teaching Kids Not to Lie
Wired: To teach children not to lie, extolling the virtues of honesty may be more effective than focusing on the punishing consequences of deception. After listening to how a young George Washington admitted to chopping
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Can Where the Wild Things Are Teach Kids Empathy?
New York Magazine: Kids who spend their early years lost in the imaginary worlds of children’s fiction —Where the Wild Things Are, Corduroy,Beatrix Potter’s stories of Peter Rabbit — may be getting more out of the
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People Are More Likely To Lie To Women During Negotiations, Study Finds
The Huffington Post: Over the last 17 years, Professor Laura Kray noticed that a striking number of female MBA students complained about being lied to during the negotiation simulations in her business school classes. When more and
