#1 - Emma Levine, Ph.D. - Benevolent Honesty

In this episode, Brian Curtis, Ph.D. speaks with Emma Levine, Ph.D. Emma is an associate professor of behavioral science and director of the Honesty, Morality, & Ethics Lab at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 

They discuss a wide range of topics, including Emma’s path to becoming interested in the topic of honesty, some of her early childhood experiences about the tensions that can exist between truth, honesty, trust, and comfort, Emma and Brian's personal experiences about the complexities of honest communication in various medical contexts – including childbirth, death and dying, and the rights of patients to choose not to know certain truths, why intentions are so important to communicate when we’re being honest with others, brutal honesty, white lies, the notion of prosocial and altruistic lying, the role of therapeutic lying when caring for patients with dementia, the sneaky concept of paltering, being honest with children, Emma’s role in The Honesty Project, and more. 

Emma's Faculty Website: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/l/emma-levine

Emma's HOPE Lab Website: https://voices.uchicago.edu/hopelab/people/

Twitter: @EmmaELevine

Experimental Honesty: https://www.experimentalhonesty.com/

Twitter: @BrianCurtisPhD