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"Art is a lie that tells the truth," Picasso famously said.

New scientific research agrees, linking greater creativity with greater lying and cheating.

According to Dan Ariely’s latest book The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, habitual liars have 14% less gray matter in their prefrontal cortices, the part of the brain concerned with...

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