Dignity is 

the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be
treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension
of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights.

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1. Honesty

Abstract
The cognitive perspective on honesty holds that deception is cognitively more demanding than
truth telling. Attempted deception is associated with the activation of executive brain regions
(particularly the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices), while truthful responding has not
been shown to be associated with any areas of increased activation (relative to deception). This
chapter discusses the recent findings regarding the cognitive correlates of deception and
proposes a framework for understanding the neural mechanisms that allow people to tell lies.
We explore lying from a developmental perspective and describe the findings obtained from
cognitive and neuroimaging studies. Finally, in the last sections, we discuss the findings on
pathological lying, on the moral brain, and on future research directions in the cognitive
neuroscience of honesty.

1. Francesca Mameli, ... Alberto Priori, in Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and

Character, 2016
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/honesty