Personal development: how to avoid lying to yourself?
Avoiding lying to yourself is a constant challenge. Self-deception, or lying to oneself, is a universal phenomenon. Whether it is ...
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Mental health: lying promotes the appearance of negative emotions
Affirming information that you know to be false affects your self-esteem. THE ESSENTIAL In the study, 41.6% of participants lied ...
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When do teenagers lie to their parents?
In general, lies are told before the event (or action) not tolerated by the parents, while the truth is more ...
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Make children believe in Santa Claus: good or bad idea?
Parents usually make children believe that Santa Claus exists, but this beautiful story remains a lie that can taint the ...
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The voice, a lie detector?
© Getty ImagesDid you know that there are approximately 70,000 ways to pronounce the same word? When we speak, the ...
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How to catch a liar?
When a person is lying, it is possible to know it thanks to certain signals, such as the sound of ...
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Statement: Doctors need to be able to lie to their patients to cause a placebo effect
It's amazing but true. If you receive a medicine without an active ingredient, there is still a chance that it ...
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More than 60% of patients would lie to their doctor
© Getty ImagesA study by the University of Utah Health (USA) suggests that 60 to 80% of people would not ...
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Education: lying to your children would make them more manipulative
Children whose parents frequently lied to during childhood tend to adopt more manipulative behaviors in adulthood. It is well known, ...
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To make us take the fake for the real, it would suffice to respect the alphabetical order!
Our brain would tend to consider as "true" any message provided that it includes ... the letters of the alphabet ...
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Psychology: lying reduces the capacity for empathy
Lying or acting dishonestly makes it harder to understand other people's feelings and can have greater long-term consequences. Better to ...
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In Texas, gynecologists can lie to pregnant women
© istockThis is a bill that should upset feminists to the highest degree. In the conservative state of Texas, the ...
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Unusual: these teenagers who use coke, ketchup to make antigenics lie
© ShutterstockWho hasn't dreamed, as a teenager, of having the perfect excuse to skip class? Or tempted to call in ...
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Why do 80% of patients all lie to their doctors?
Most patients lie to their doctor or deliberately fail to report things that are dangerous to their health. According to ...
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Patient who died at Garches hospital: why is it a bad idea to lie about her vaccination status?
© ShutterstockIt all starts at the beginning of December 2021. A 57-year-old woman is admitted to the Emergency Department of ...
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Why is it sometimes difficult to tell the truth?
Whether it's trivialities or heavy confidences, the truth is sometimes more difficult to tell than a lie for some people.Whether ...
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April 1, when lying becomes a game: after that we stop?
April Fool's Day is a traditional April 1 joke. But we must explain to children that this tradition ends on ...
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Fake News, the new name for lies; nothing new except the power of the internet!
The Fake News (translation "false news") are at the center of the debates, not only because our president denounces the ...
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Santa: lying to children undermines trust in parents
Lying to children about the existence of Santa Claus would ruin their trust in their parents, according to a study.“Parents ...
Read moreThe voice, a lie detector?
© Getty ImagesDid you know that there are approximately 70,000 ways to pronounce the same word? When we speak, the ...
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Brain: how little lies get big
Telling little lies desensitizes our brain. He no longer feels negative emotions and encourages us to tell bigger stories. Lying ...
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Glasses with blue light filter: a lie?
© GettyImagesYou have just bought a pair of glasses from your optician, and he offered, for an additional fee, to ...
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Liar children have better memories
Children who lie best have better verbal memory than others, according to a British study. However, they are not distinguished ...
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7 out of 10 patients would lie to their doctor
December 7, 2018. According to a recent study, 70% of patients would lie to their doctor. What are the reasons ...
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Female alcoholism: the signs that never lie
February 13, 2018. How do we know if our alcohol consumption is reasonable or excessive? By testing “Laurence's Secret”, an ...
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Oxytocin: hormone of love that prompts lies
Lying in the interest of a group, such as protecting fellow students in conflict, is a reaction motivated by oxytocin, ...
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Woman fakes cancer to raise donations on Facebook
An Australian woman claimed to have terminal cancer in order to raise funds on social media. The pot aux roses ...
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Michel Lejoyeux is professor of psychiatry in Paris. This specialist in addiction, that is to say especially drug addicts and ...
Read moreHow do you tell children the truth?
Child psychiatrists profess a simple and compelling rule. Never lie to children, so talk to children about the vagaries of ...
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Cahuzac affair: the lie translates suffering
For Professor Michel Lejoyeux, revealing the truth following a lie carries the risk of acute psychiatric conditions.The lie ! The ...
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