Being Afraid of the Light

If there is a terror about darkness because we cannot see, there is also a terror about light because we can see. There is a terror about light because ...

Research on Honesty and Deceit

In 2008, New York Magazine ran a comprehensive article about research concerning kids and lying. In one study researchers gathered a group of children ...

Hollywood Director on Detecting Fraud

It's gotten to the point that our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

—Andrew Niccol, U. S. screenwriter, producer, ...

French Investor Caught for $7 Billion Fraud

Have you ever gotten yourself in big trouble—really, really big trouble? So big you can't even conceive of how much trouble you're in? That's ...

Why We Lie

Bella DePaulo, a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in studying forms of human deception, asked college ...

Changed Tax Rule Forces Honesty

In their book Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explain how a simple change to U. S. tax rules in 1987 exposed the depth of the public's ...

All Roads Lead to God?

In a video based on his book 3:16 Stories of Hope, Max Lucado illustrates the odd nature of the statement that "all religions lead to God":

All ...

Sin Looks Pleasant at First

We are too apt to forget that temptation to sin will rarely present itself to us in its true colors, saying, "I am your deadly enemy, and I want ...

Man Puts Hope in Counterfeit Money

Have you ever had high hopes for something and then seen those hopes crumble to pieces? It happened to one man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His story ...

Lying Takes More Brain Energy

A study at Temple University School of Medicine found that lying takes more brain energy than telling the truth. Participants were divided into two groups. ...