Should you be honest all the time, or are there times when brutal honesty is mean-spirited? It's not always so easy to tell.

Beyond preventing betrayal, honesty builds emotional intimacy, better conflict resolution, stronger identity sharing, and ...

When a liar goes on a tangent and does their best to make others look bad, they'll often say passive-aggressive or downright ...

An old but still-common method of encouraging honesty is the venerable “oath”: an explicit promise to be honest. People have used oaths since ancient times, says Janis Zickfeld, a social ...

I was recently fired for an honest mistake after 43 years at my job. I chose to tell people I retired. While at a dinner party for her retirement, she announced to everyone at the table that I did ...

In my new book, A Climate of Truth, I argue that society radically needs to become more honest. In politics, media and ...