When did you tell your first white lie? If you're like most kids, early on you learned the art of "social flattery", otherwise known as lying.
Oh,
it's not always the kids' fault. We tell them to do it. "Shh!" we
whisper furtively to our preschoolers, "You shouldn't call the lady
fat!" And researchers say that white lies grease the wheels of social
interaction. Um, yeah. And we pretty much all do it, at least if we
don't want to be ostracized. And it all starts at about the time we
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