But perpetuating the Santa Claus myth may set children up to realize that their parents are liars, psychologist Christopher Boyle and mental health researcher Kathy McKay argue in a new essay in the medical journal Lancet Psychiatry.
Don realizes they were set up to fail, they weren't given enough money and were told "no finished work".
In a workplace and in other business settings, realize that dummy cameras may be set up to intimidate you into good behavior.
Think about most direct services organizations that you know -- schools, teen pregnancy prevention centers, and the like -- and you'll realize that they are set up to implement theories of change, not to test them.
A man so unevolved that, realizing he has been set up to drive a getaway car, he won't high-tail it out of there because he said he'd wait.
After being branded as the arsonist in a second suspicious fire, Finney realizes he is being set up to take the fall for the main event, a devastating blaze in Seattle's tallest skyscraper, the 76-story Columbia tower, that singes the pages with its descriptive narrative heat.
And he is raising money, mostly through a Web site, which has not yet been set up. "I realize the odds are, at best, against me winning," he said.
It was to delve into these questions that I set up the Beckley Foundation, realizing that, as a Foundation, I could be much more effective than as a mere person.
