Lying for Patients

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...

Vital capacity in lying position: important in Duchenne patients.

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Pathological Lying

Lying because we care: Compassion increases prosocial lying.

Prosocial lies, or lies intended to benefit others, are ubiquitous behaviors that have important social and economic consequences. Though emotions play a central role in many forms of prosocial behavior, no work has investigated how emotions influence behavior when one has the opportunity to tell a prosocial lie-a situation that presents a conflict between two prosocial ethics: lying to prevent...

Thinking of app-lying for vet school?

PROSPECTIVE veterinary students can now find out more about applying for vet school and what it is like to be a qualified vet thanks to ‘Be a Vet’, a new app created by staff at the University of Glasgow’s School of Veterinary Medicine. The vet school says that many students can find the transition to life as a university veterinary student challenging, particularly if they are leaving home for...