More To Know About Lying

Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris ^[1]Nobody’s Fool (2023) Basic Books provide a great take on deceptions, scams, and other misinformation and share insights and advice (e.g., think about what’s missing, be careful what you assume, be wary of ‘butterfly effects’) on how to know flimflam when we see or hear it. They also share and have adapted and shared how a “possibility grid” can help us evaluate evidence better and notice when we are being misled.

A Dishonesty Expert Is Labeled a Liar

In 2015, a team of scholars reported that they had tried to replicate the results of 100 studies published in prominent psychology journals and succeeded in fewer than half the cases. The behavioral studies proved especially hard to replicate. Questions have emerged about the work of a prominent scientist who studies honesty because fabricated results were believed to be included in at least one published article.