When I taught a course on conflict resolution, students had to write descriptions of conflicts they were engaged in. I required their papers to be crafted in such a way that, if the person they were ...

Source: Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Exaggeration is often used, sometimes habitually, for two reasons. Some individuals use it as a form of emotional self-expression. Other times it is used to ...

With Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz criticized for exaggerating his military service, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to psychologist Holly Cole about why humans tend to embellish stories. I ...

Rudy Giuliani visited the right-wing news network Newsmax on Thursday to try and gaslight the entire country with claims that the January 6th insurrection on Capitol Hill was all an “exaggeration.” ...