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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leveraging neuroscience to create remarkable leadership. All of us. We lie to save face, to avoid hurting other ...

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In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new claim: they could tell whether someone was lying by using a ...