Interesting slices of life
You CAN handle the truth
“You can’t handle the truth!” Jack Nicholson’s immortal line as Colonel Jessep from summarises our reluctance to face the honest reality of things. There’s obviously some truth to it, but is honesty really such an anathema to us? In a series of experiments, researchers explored the actual and predicted consequences of honesty in everyday life. In one field experiment, subjects were instructed
