Almost Everyone Lies, Often Seeing It as a Kindness

Feldman's experiments show that stern-faced judicial proceedings about perjury are as remote from the realities of human behavior as President Bush is from the Nobel Peace Prize. For one thing, lying plays a more complex role in human relationships than the black-and-white legal view recognizes. It is also so commonplace in everyday life that putting people on trial for lying is somewhat like putting them on trial for breathing. Full Story »

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Ben Ross
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by Ben Ross - Oct. 1, 2008

Very funny confession by Post everyone lies, don't worry about this newspaper's lies, you do it also. I like "Look at the Libby trial," said Leonard Saxe, a social psychologist at Brandeis University. "Even if he knew when he testified that he was being deceptive, I am sure he believes he was doing it for the best of reasons and this was his way of being a patriot.", is this Post editorial policy?

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