The holidays can be rough for singles and couples alike. According to dating experts, a shocking number of people tend to lie ...

I was recently troubled by some students cheating on my college course exams. Once I became aware of the cheating, I took steps to try to stop it, and I was surprised that a couple of students ...

Years ago, I provided grief counseling to a woman I’ll call Cassie. Her husband of 10 years had passed away from a sudden heart attack, and she felt devastated. Left with two young children to raise ...

Despite what watching the news might suggest, most people are averse to dishonest behavior. Yet studies have shown that when people delegate a task to others, the diffusion of responsibility can make ...

People often cheat to win money, get prizes, or beat others. But what if there’s nothing to gain except feeling good about yourself? Would people still bend the rules just to feel a bit smarter, more ...

You might have seen the letters ENM (meaning: ethical non-monogamy) when scrolling through the likes of Hinge and Feeld, but how often does the concept actually come up in conversation IRL? Well, ...

The reasons that people cheat are myriad. They might be unhappy, they might be depressed, they might be in constant need of something new, they might just cheat for cheating’s sake. Some people are to ...

In what feels like the prologue to every robot apocalypse movie, new research suggests that AI systems will lie and cheat humans when it comes to self-preservation. Reasoning models from DeepSeek and ...

Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up. OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.