News tagged with truth
Let customers lie? Research says maybe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Honesty may be the best policy, but new research from the University of Sydney suggests that consumers feel more satisfied if they lie and get what they want than if they tell the truth.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Study: LinkedIn resumes more honest -- in some ways
A new study says people are less likely to lie about big things on resumes they post on the professional network LinkedIn compared with traditional resumes.
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Sympathy for the devil?
Misconceptions about the Church of Satan abound. For many people, anything with the word Satan is synonymous with evil, conjuring up images of gory offerings and babies bred for sacrifice. Nothing could be ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 31, 2011 |
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Dirty hands, dirty mouths: Study finds a need to clean the body part that lies
Apparently your mom had it right when she threatened to wash your mouth out with soap if you talked dirty. Lying really does create a desire to clean the "dirty" body part, according to a University of Michigan study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Foreign accents make speakers seem less truthful to listeners
A foreign accent undermines a person's credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don't consciously realize, new research at the University of Chicago shows.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Neuroimaging suggests that truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people
A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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People sometimes seek the truth, but most prefer like-minded views
We swim in a sea of information, but filter out most of what we see and hear. A new analysis of data from dozens of studies sheds new light on how we choose what we do and do not hear. The study found that ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Smoking prevention campaign saving billions in smoking-related care
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American Legacy Foundation have estimated that truth®, the nations' largest youth smoking prevention campaign, saved $1.9 billion or more in health ...
Feb 12, 2009 |
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