My freshman year of high school, a senior basketball player was arrested during the school day. News of his arrest spread around the campus like wildfire. There were no cellphone cameras then, so ...

Key points False accusation violates our implicit and sustaining belief in the just-world hypothesis. One main dilemma with false accusation is how to respond. Being aware of well-documented forms of ...

You’ve probably already heard that they’re exceptionally rare, comprising somewhere between two and 10 percent of rape accusations. But in a piece for Quartz, Sandra Newman explains what we know about ...

Corey Wade has the notes he wrote during his trial and the expunction letter ordering all of the records from his indictment, arrest and trial to be destroyed. Those pieces of paper are the only ...

What can I do if someone makes false allegations against me? This question pops up at one of life's most stressful moments. False accusations take many forms—defamation (libel or slander), workplace ...

Many of Stacey Sharples's victims say they lost their jobs and partners over the accusations A woman who falsely accused 10 men of raping her has been jailed. Stacey Sharples, 30, of Farnworth, ...

TWO fake rape allegations in the news caused consternation across the country recently. In one of the reported cases, a certain TikToker, Abigail Nsuka, popularly known as Mirabel, alleged through a ...

TVC presenter Riyah Abdul has weighed in on the controversy involving an Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) student, David, who filed a N15 million lawsuit against a female colleague after she falsely ...

The director of Gumpalannews.com is facing a trial over alleged graft in a 2022 Simeulue regency publication project that ...

There are lies we find acceptable, depending on the circumstances. We may lie to protect someone, to spare a person’s feelings, to bypass complexity in explaining a difficult incident, or to avoid ...