The human lie isn’t a flaw so much as a feature, one that evolution spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting.

A new longitudinal study published in Development and Psychopathology provides evidence that most children exhibit low or ...

A set of three studies of 36- to 83-month-old Singaporean children found that they were less likely to use deception in a strategic game after they were given explicit permission to deceive. The paper ...

Are meat eaters more selfish than vegetarians? Do chaotic situations promote stereotyping? Do we feel smarter when those close to us win awards? These and other intriguing questions have been recently ...

A new study suggests around one-quarter of children start to understand deception by as early as 10 months old (!!), and this rises to half of kids by the time they’re 17 months. Previous research has ...