Nothing connects people more powerfully than well-told stories. Humans have been telling each other stories since long before they could write them down. Sharing is a critical part of building trust with others, and that essential to creating meaningful connections people. Great structure purpose; appeal our deepest emotions are most compelling when challenge or change perceptions reality. Ther...

The diagnosis of curable, secondary causes of hypertension is a satisfying but challenging aspect, for both patient and doctor, of the clinical management of hypertension. They are probably under-recognized, and the enthusiasm to look for causes is blunted by low pickup rates in unselected patients. Young age encourages a search more because the alternative is many decades of drug treatment tha...

We present in this paper a constrained version of the problem of enumerating all maximal directed acyclic subgraphs (DAG) of a graph G. In this version, we enumerate stories, which are maximal DAGs whose sources and targets belong to a predefined subset of the nodes. First we show how to compute one story in polynomial-time, and we then describe two different algorithms to “tell” all possible s...

Men and women (20 each) were videotaped while describing someone they liked, someone they disliked, someone they were ambivalent about, someone they were indifferent about, someone they liked as though they disliked him or her, and someone they disliked as thought they like him or her. Accuracy at detecting that some deception had occurred was far greater than accuracy at detecting the true und...

The paper employs laboratory experimentation to study the effect of competition on truth telling and trust in communication. A sequence of either competitive or cooperative interactions preceded an experimental communication game. In the game, informed advisors sent a recommendation to decision-makers who faced uncertainty about the consequences of their choice. While many advisors told the tru...

Contrary to the usual discussion of lying or deceiving in medical ethics literature where the lying or deceiving is done by the doctor or surgeon, this paper deals with lying or deceiving on the part of the patient. Three cases involving HIV-infected male homosexual or bisexual persons are presented. In each case the patient deceives or wants the doctor to deceive a third party on his behalf. A...

In 7 experiments, the authors manipulated social exclusion by telling people that they would end up alone later in life or that other participants had rejected them. Social exclusion caused a substantial reduction in prosocial behavior. Socially excluded people donated less money to a student fund, were unwilling to volunteer for further lab experiments, were less helpful after a mishap, and co...

This article offers a qualified defence of the view that there is a moral difference between telling lies to one's patients, and deceiving them without lying. However, I take issue with certain arguments offered by Jennifer Jackson in support of the same conclusion. In particular, I challenge her claim that to deny that there is such a moral difference makes sense only within a utilitarian fram...

discussions, for sharing her expertise and for her constant encouragement. Also, I am tremendously thankful to her for introducing me to the Berlin culture, for dragging me to kick boxing classes and for always reminding me that the chestnut trees blossom beautifully! I am mostly indebted to Ana Milojkovic for her true and unconditional friendship, for her trust, for her care and for sticking b...