After all this time I do not trust my memory to be accurate in every detail. Besides, I can only provide glimpses from the perspective of a beginning graduate student struggling to catch up followed by that of a postdoc who found himself quite far from much of the action. I will not even attempt to be comprehensive in either the telling or the references; rather I will restrict myself to those ...

Wangensteen. Dr. Cave subscribes to the belief that "not to know the truth will cause the least mental anguish to many patients... ." Dr. Wangensteen, on the other hand, makes a strong plea for telling the truth, saying that the patient sooner or later guesses what is being hid from him and then loses trust in his physician and is bewildered and hurt by the insincere behavior of his friends and...

side of the picture—the computers themselves are only part of the system. IEEE Security & Privacy has covered these topics in the past, but usually from the perspective of computing, not society. Can we make it easier for human users to correctly trust what their computers are telling them? Can we make it easier for human programmers to write code that achieves desired functional and performanc...

We conduct a laboratory experiment with a constant-sum sender-receiver game to investigate the impact of individuals’ firstand second-order beliefs on truth-telling. While senders are more likely to lie if they expect the receiver to trust their message (which is in line with expected payoff maximization), they are also more likely to tell the truth if they believe the receiver expects them to ...

Interactions between entities unknown to each other are inevitable in the ambient intelligence vision of service access anytime, anywhere. Trust management through a reputation mechanism to facilitate such interactions is recognized as a vital part of mobile ad hoc networks, which features lack of infrastructure, autonomy, mobility and resource scarcity of composing light-weight terminals. Howe...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To draw out the similar complexities faced by staff around truth-telling in a children's and adult population and to interrogate the dilemmas faced by staff when informal carers act to block truth-telling. BACKGROUND Policy encourages normalisation of death, but carers may act to protect or prevent the patient from being told the truth. Little is known about the impact on ...

Accompanied with various opinions across cultures, truth telling is a major debate in bioethics. Many studies have focused on attitudes toward truth disclosure. We intend to review several relevant research studies, and discuss the issue through a clinical case consultation. It seems that while "the right to know" is emphasized in bioethics, in some cultural contexts, health professionals fear ...

There has been extensive research on children's moral evaluation of lying in prosocial situations. Current knowledge regarding the concept of lying has been derived from studies showing that cultural differences exist, whereby non-Western children tend to rate lie telling more positively than Western children do. These findings suggest that there are different views about whether children shoul...

Peer-prediction [18] is a (meta-)mechanism which, given any proper scoring rule, produces a mechanism to elicit privately-held, non-verifiable information from self-interested agents. Formally, truth-telling is a strict Nash equilibrium of the mechanism. Unfortunately, there may be other equilibria as well (including uninformative equilibria where all players simply report the same fixed signal...