Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A new research article published in BMC Psychology sheds light on the ...

It’s fortunate that liars’ pants don’t really catch on fire. If they did, much of the world’s population would be ablaze at any given moment. “People lie most days,” says Kevin Colwell, a professor of ...

ATLANTA - Former President Jimmy Carter is currently lying in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda as the nation honors the 39th president. This solemn occasion precedes a National Funeral Service at the ...

While we’ve all known about lying for a hot minute, the bright spotlight on gaslighting has been a more recent development. You may have heard it from a friend talking about her ex or from a ...

Everyone lies. Over a one-week span, about 95 percent of people report telling at least one lie. However, some people tell a lot more than one. Some people tell lies with such regularity that ...

To many teenagers, lying seems to be the easy way to get out of trouble or to get to do some adventure that has been disallowed. As described in an earlier post about mid-adolescence (ages 13-15), ...