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Humans and self-deception: How cheating ourselves can make us feel smarter
A study reveals how self-deception makes us feel smarter and more accomplished - even when we're unknowingly cheating ...
Your Brain Is Cheating on You, and You Don’t Even Know It
Sometimes, we cheat—not for money or prizes, but just to feel better about ourselves. A new study reveals that people engage ...
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Why smart people cheat — even when there’s nothing to gain
Discover the fascinating phenomenon of unconscious cheating: why we sometimes cheat to feel better about ourselves even ...
Fooling yourself: People unknowingly cheat on tasks to feel smarter, healthier
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool myself, and I may end up feeling smarter, according to a new study led by Sara Dommer, ...
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People Unknowingly Cheat Tasks for Self-Validation
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool myself, and I may end up feeling smarter, according to a new study led by Sara Dommer, ...
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Labour’s growth plan is still self-deception
It’s barely a week since Rachel Reeves made her agenda-setting speech on how the Government intends to ‘kickstart economic growth’. Yet while her commendable rhetoric may have enabled the Chancellor ...
Russia’s Baltic Sea sabotage is no accident, it’s strategy
Intelligence officials in the U.S. and Europe have suggested that recent incidents damaging critical cables in the Baltic Sea were accidental, according to a Washington Post report. Western ...
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Deception in AI: Flaw or a Sign of Higher Intelligence?
Deception has long been considered a uniquely human trait, a product of cunning and the ability to think strategically. But what happens when this art of deceit crosses the threshold into ...