Truth telling, a cardinal rule in Western medicine, is not a globally shared moral stance. Honest disclosure of terminal prognosis and diagnosis are regarded as imperative in preparing for the end of life. Yet in many cultures, truth concealment is common practice. In collectivist Asian and Muslim cultures, illness is a shared family affair. Consequently, decision making is family centred and b...

War and civil strife no longer affect only the combatants. Entire societies are victimized, civil institutions are destroyed, and the social fabric severely undermined. Dealing with the aftermath of such conflict demands strategies of social transformation aimed at rebuilding the shattered political, economic, and social relationship characteristic of prolonged conflict. Recently, processes suc...

BACKGROUND While medical ethics place a high value on providing truthful information to patients, disclosure practices are far from being the norm in many countries. Transmitting bad news still remains a big problem that health care professionals face in their every day clinical practice. AIMS Through the review of relevant literature, an attempt to examine the trends in this issue worldwide ...

Choosing a mortgage is one of the biggest financial decisions an American consumer will make. Yet it can be a complicated one, especially in today’s environment where mortgages vary in dimensions and unique features. This complexity has raised regulatory issues. Should some features be regulated? Should product disclosure be regulated? And most basic of all, is there a rationale for regulation ...

Hartwig, M. (2005). Interrogating to detect deception and truth: Effects of strategic use of evidence. Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, Sweden. Several decades of research has shown that people are poor at detecting deception. This thesis, based on four empirical studies, aimed at exploring human deception detection accuracy in the context of interrogations. In three of the studie...

This study aims to describe the role of digital literacy as a solution post truth phenomena in era information disclosure . type research is qualitative using SLR ( Systematic Literature Review ) method. literature review method that collecting, identifying, mapping, critically evaluating results on certain topics The show post-truth phenomenon which currently booming can be minimized by educat...

Until now, antirealists have offered sketches of a theory of truth, at best. In this paper, we present an antirealist theory of truth in some formal detail. We show that the theory is able to deal satisfactorily with the problems that are standardly taken to beset antirealism. According to antirealists, there is an intimate connection between truth and human cognitive capacities which holds by ...

This study examined the effects of coaching (encouragement and rehearsal of false reports) and truth induction (a child-friendly version of the oath or general reassurance about the consequences of disclosure) on 4- to 7-year-old maltreated children's reports (N = 198). Children were questioned using free recall, repeated yes-no questions, and highly suggestive suppositional questions. Coaching...

When the interests of interlocutors are not aligned, either party may wish to avoid truthful disclosure. A sender wishing to conceal the truth from a receiver may lie by providing false information, mislead by actively encouraging the receiver to reach a false conclusion, or simply be uninformative by providing little or no relevant information. Lying entails moral and other hazards, such as de...