Bystanders in cyberbullying

Published: 25 July 2018

Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad.  Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social...

From election campaigns to dishonest monkeys: Why we're hard-wired to lie

Published: 21 October 2016

According to McGill University's Victoria Talwar, there are two main categories of lies: deceptions that are motivated by self-interest and lies that are designed to benefit others. CBC News

Punishing kids for lying just doesn’t work

Published: 8 December 2014

If you want your child to tell the truth, it’s best not to threaten to punish them if they lie. That’s what researchers discovered through a simple experiment involving 372 children between the...

The truth about lying? Children’s perceptions get more nuanced with age

Published: 5 October 2016

Parents don’t like it when children lie. But what do the kids themselves think about it? New research suggests truth telling isn’t black and white....

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