Emma Levine

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594 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 14 Sep

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Hidden Brain · When It's Okay to Lie · 30 Mar 2026 podcast

We certainly mean don't tell selfish lies.

I think it's still quite complicated.

In some ways, we really do mean don't tell lies because we're afraid of the risk of allowing people to tell some lies.

So these situations are really robust.

We reflect on them.

We think in this given situation, when a person can't change or the information is trivial, we should lie.

At the same time, we think if we tell people they can lie sometimes, they're also going to get it wrong sometimes and they're going to end up telling selfish lies or telling well-meaning lies that actually do harm.

And we're very, very worried about that error.

And so we'd rather live in a world where people tell truths in the wrong circumstances instead of lies in the wrong circumstances.

So it's complicated.

They can.

They can increase trust.

So in these types of situations, when both parties recognize that telling the lie prevents unnecessary harm,

the listener will increase in their belief that the communicator has their best interests in mind.

And so that's a certain form of trust.

I'm now willing to be emotionally vulnerable to you, to seek you out for support.

I trust you as someone who is benevolent towards me.

And that's really important in some relationships, like going back to the opening example, the relationship I have with my mother.

But the double-edged sword is it still does reduce integrity-based trust in that despite believing this is someone who I can count on to protect me and care for me and be compassionate, I also recognize that I can't always count on the veracity of their words.

And so it increases one type of trust, benevolence-based trust, while still undermining integrity-based trust.

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