Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jeff Hancock

American Psychologist, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Communications at Cornell University

"We like to protect ourselves or for our own gain or for somebody else’s gain. So there are some pathological liars, but they make up a tiny portion of the population. We lie for a reason. Just because people can’t see us doesn’t mean we’re going to necessarily lie."

"When you are about to say or do something, we can think, do I want this to be part of my legacy, part of my personal record? Because in the digital age we live in now, in the networked age, we are all leaving a record."

"A lot of research shows that we all lie once or twice a day."