Despite all this multibillion-dollar bungling, the White House continues to complain about the cost of USDA programs like ...

Detecting a lie isn't about finding one single "smoking gun" phrase; it’s about noticing patterns of communication. While ...

Would you tell a lie to help someone else? A new study says women won’t lie on their own behalf, but they are willing to do so for someone else if they feel criticized or pressured by others. In ...

The question of why people lie is profoundly important and endlessly intriguing. Before I turned my attention to research and writing about single people and single life, I spent about two decades ...

The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. Government leaders deploy up-is-down narratives at an exhausting clip. Online worlds drip with artificial intelligence-generated slop that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leveraging neuroscience to create remarkable leadership. All of us. We lie to save face, to avoid hurting other ...