Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we tell our children to deceive. -with apologies to Sir Walter Scott. We're having a little problem with lying at my house: My daughter, Sophie, won't do it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Adults know well that actions have consequences, but kids might need guidance ...

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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. — Norman Cousins A ...

If you answered yes, you were probably using a form of moral reasoning called "utilitarianism." Stripped down to its essentials, utilitarianism is a moral principle that holds that the morally right ...

On Sunday afternoon, a 28-year-old man walked into a Washington, D.C. ping-pong bar and pizzeria. He was carrying an AR-15 assault rifle – hardly standard-issue hardware for a round of table tennis.

Ten years ago, in a small hotel room in Helsinki, Finland, a young tech entrepreneur sat down with a pen and paper and calculated that one of his inventions was responsible for wasting the equivalent ...

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(A) Common DNA damaging agents (top), examples of DNA lesions induced by these agents (middle), and the most relevant DNA repair mechanism responsible for the removal of the lesions (bottom). (B) ...