In 2 diary studies of lying, 77 college students reported telling 2 lies a day, and 70 community members told 1. Participants told more self-centered lies than other-oriented lies, except in dyads involving only women, in which other-oriented lies were as common as self-centered ones. Participants told relatively more self-centered lies to men and relatively more other-oriented lies to women. C...

Functional diagnostic imaging has been applied in neuropsychology for more than two decades. Nowadays, the functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) seems to be the most important technique. Brain imaging in lying has been performed and discussed since 2001. There are postulates to use fMRI for forensic purposes, as well as commercially, e.g. testing the loyalty of employees, especially because of t...

Question: What is the best way to intervene when young children repeatedly lie to their parents? I work with several families for whom this has become a major point of contention in their homes. A: When we learn to talk as young children, we go through a process of discovering what can be accomplished through manipulating language. At around age 15 months, most children will have developed the ...

I lied to the future last night. I told it that soon it would be big and strong and profitable. I then tucked it into its crib, turned off the lights, and hoped the day would never come when the future would curse this lie. I not only assured the future it would someday be strong and profitable, I also told it how it would strong and profitable. My lie was a little more prosaic than my words su...

The paper argues that the correct definition of lying is that to lie is to assert something one believes to be false, where assertion is understood in terms of the notion of the common ground of a conversation. It is shown that this definition makes the right predictions for a number of cases involving irony, joking, and false implicature. In addition, the proposed account does not assume that ...

The present set of studies identifies the phenomenon of `parenting by lying', in which parents lie to their children as a means of influencing their emotional states and behaviour. In Study 1, undergraduates (n = 127) reported that their parents had lied to them while maintaining a concurrent emphasis on the importance of honesty. In Study 2 (n = 127), parents reported lying to their children a...