Emma Levine
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594 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Emma Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so that's doing a lot of work here.
Yeah, people think about fragility and distraction as kind of these temporary states that merit deception.
So in this one particular instance, a participant writes about this time that she withheld the truth from her friend, the truth being that a boy wasn't interested in her, and she didn't tell her friend because the friend was studying for an exam.
She didn't want to throw her off her study patterns and risk
undermining her exam performance, so she withheld the truth and told her later.
And that's not all that different from what my mother did when I was studying for my qualifying exams.
She waited.
Participants imagine being the caregiver for an elderly man named Jeff, and they learn that Jeff's estranged daughter has passed away.
So that's the setup that everybody learns.
And then we randomly assign participants to a condition in which Jeff is...
either not cognitively compromised or is cognitively compromised.
So in the control condition, you know that Jeff is in good physical and mental health despite being quite elderly.
And in that situation, almost everyone believes that you should tell the truth.
Only about 7% of participants, 7.7%, believe it is ethical to lie to Jeff about the death of his daughter.
But in another condition, we tell participants that although Jeff is in good physical health, he suffers from severe dementia, implying that he cannot necessarily make sense of reality and he's easily confused.
And now almost a third of participants believe the right thing to do is to lie.
So this isn't because Jeff is in compromised physical health.
It's his mental health.
It's his cognitive state, right?
The degree to which we think he can understand and cope with this difficult truth.
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