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We all know President Trump prizes loyalty (to him) above all else. But where does lying come in?  And can it beat honesty when it comes to loyalty?  I guess we should know.  We've seen it play out time and again with this president. According to a new study, some people think lying can be ethical.  And they're not all in the cabinet.  . A new Cornell University study shows people who are dishonest out of loyalty feel they are acting ethically and morally but outsiders disagree, seeing those actions as immoral and wrong – unless they lie out of loyalty, newswise.com reports. Researchers from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, was interested in what happens when loyalty clashes with values like honesty and fairness.  Study lead Angus Hildreth, assistant professor of management and organizations at the school,  and his co-author, Cameron Anderson of the University of California, Berkley, worked with nearly 1,400 particip...

We all know lying is bad -- well, except for some people. But what about white lies?  When your husband asks if his forehead is receding more, or you, how your jeans fit   . . You get the picture.  But now a new study says that it's never good to lie . According to newswise.com, if  you think you’re helping someone by lying, you may want to think again. T elling a lie in order to help or protect someone—a practice known as prosocial lying—backfires if the person being lied to perceives the lie as paternalistic, says new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Chicago Booth Assistant Professor  Emma Levine , Deakin University’s Matthew Lupoli, and UCLA Anderson’s Adam Eric Greenberg, find that well-intentioned lies can spark strong resentment from the person who is deceived. The researchers identify a key factor that determines whether people respond positively or negatively to prosocial lies: the extent to which the...