A long tradition of scholarship, from ancient Greece to Marxism or some contemporary social
psychology, portrays humans as strongly gullible—wont to accept harmful messages by …

Why are there few reliable deception cues and why is deception detection a challenge?
These questions are related and have puzzled social scientists, leading to few universal …

A salient issue for online romantic relationships is the possibility of deception, but it is
unclear how lies are communicated before daters meet. We collected mobile dating …

Although research reveals that children as young as 3 can use deception and will take steps
to obscure truth, research concerning how well others detect children's deceptive efforts …

People make for poor lie detectors. They have accuracy rates comparable to a coin toss, and
come with a set of systematic biases that sway the judgment. This pessimistic view stands in …

Why do consumers sometimes fall for spurious claims—for example, brain training games
that prevent cognitive decline, toning sneakers that sculpt one's body, flower essence that …

There is a bias towards believing information is true rather than false. The Spinozan account
claims there is an early, automatic bias towards believing. Only afterwards can people …

We tested two competing models on the memory representation of truth-value information:
the Spinozan model and the Cartesian model. Both models assume that truth-value …

To comprehend a statement, do people first have to believe it is true? Spinoza argued yes,
that people initially assume the truth of a statement and later revise if necessary. Descartes …

With the “discursive turn” has come a distrust–a complete rejection by some–of theories that
seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its …