While exaggeration is at the core of advertising, many ads try and make brands look bigger and more important than they actually are to the consumer, making the exaggeration hard to digest ...

When I taught a course on conflict resolution, students had to write descriptions of conflicts they were engaged in. I required their papers to be crafted in such a way that, if the person they were ...

Source: Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Exaggeration is often used, sometimes habitually, for two reasons. Some individuals use it as a form of emotional self-expression. Other times it is used to ...

With several recent reports of misleading ads being banned in different countries, TOI looks at the thin line that separates exaggeration from false claims “The truth in ads means the ‘rational’ truth ...

President Trump’s war against diversity, equity and inclusion is reverberating throughout nearly every sector, igniting a civil rights pushback. But his executive orders ending DEI cannot halt the ...

Rob MacKenzie receives funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council, the European Research Council, and the JABBS Foundation. To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration ...