Just lying

Are Disappearing Dwarfs Just Lying Low?

Recent redshift surveys have shown that the excess galaxies seen in faint galaxy number counts (above those expected given the local galaxy luminosity function) are not evolved giants at high redshifts, but low to moderate luminosity objects at more modest redshifts. This has led to the suggestion that there was once an additional population of dwarf galaxies which has since disappeared, ie. th...

Limiting our daily sitting/lying to just 23.5 hours: too ambitious?

Thank you to BJSM guest editor Steven Blair and all our January and February authors (http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/ vol43/issue1; http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/ vol43/issue2). If we apply Bono’s battle cry ‘‘There has been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk’’...to the subject of physical inactivity, we can now proclaim it’s time for action. The January and February BJSM issues bring together globa...

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...

Pathological Lying

Lying because we care: Compassion increases prosocial lying.

Prosocial lies, or lies intended to benefit others, are ubiquitous behaviors that have important social and economic consequences. Though emotions play a central role in many forms of prosocial behavior, no work has investigated how emotions influence behavior when one has the opportunity to tell a prosocial lie-a situation that presents a conflict between two prosocial ethics: lying to prevent...