First Nations in Australia are beginning to grapple with processes of treaty‐making state governments and territories. As these gain momentum, truth‐telling has become a central tenet imagining Indigenous emancipation the possibility transforming relationships between settler peoples. Truth, it is suggested, will enable changed ways knowing what who “Australia” is. These dynamics assume that be...

Supply chains are often in an environment where the demand is affected by the retailer’s sales effort and the supplier has no accurate information about the retailer’s cost. In this situation, the retailer’s action of distorting his cost information could damage the efficiency of the supply chain. In order to reduce the resulted impairment, the problem of how to coordinate the retailer’s action...

Family physicians, pediatricians, and geneticists meet a variety of young patients at various stages of the maturing process. As clinicians are privy to information about their patients that may be disturbing, they develop knowledge about human nature and decide, often along with parents, the appropriate level of information for different children and adolescents. And while it may be possible i...

Using a real-life case involving an accidental discovery of misattributed paternity as a springboard for discussion, I reflect on several practical and theoretical issues on truth-telling in the doctor–patient relationship. I present the moral dilemma and identify arguments in favour of and against disclosure. I then examine the theoretical difficulties in balancing conflicting reasons and in e...

Previous studies indicate that lying consumes cognitive resources, especially working memory (WM) resources. Considering the dual functions that WM might play in lying: holding the truth-related information and turning the truth into lies, the present study examined the relationship between the information storage and processing in the lie construction. To achieve that goal, a deception task ba...

Transparency has become an ethical cornerstone of American medicine. Today, patients have the right to know their health information, and physicians are obliged to provide it. It is expected that patients will be informed of their medical condition regardless of the severity or prognosis. This ethos of transparency is ingrained in modern trainees from the first day of medical school onward. How...

Seminal work in finance and economics has studied theoretical models of ethical behavior. We provide experimental evidence for the role of a universal “sacred value,” namely, truth. We study this value in the context of earnings management, which is an important business setting where the conflict between personal gains and behavior consistent with the value of truth is particularly salient. We...

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The current study looks at the effect of telling lies, in contrast to simply planning lies, on participants' belief in the truth. Participants planned and told a lie, planned to tell a lie but didn't tell it, told an unplanned lie, or neither planned nor told a lie (control) about events that did not actually happen to them. Participants attempted to convince researchers that all of the stories...