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"Lie-ability" in hiring.

S O'Connor
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Recent political events in the news and the seemingly endless, evasive wordsmithing in our legal system suggest that the ancient practice of lying has been elevated to an art form. Telling the truth has often been reduced to semantical compliance with factual definitions.

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S O'Connor. "Lie-ability" in hiring.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10187134/

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