When dealing with people, it’s important to tell the difference between an occasional fib and a chronic habit of falsehood. Pathological liars are not just storytellers; they weave intricate webs of ...

Everyone lies sometimes, but there’s a difference between the occasional white lie and someone who can’t stop. Pathological liars don’t just stretch the truth—they build entire realities out of thin ...

When I ask people if they have ever met a pathological liar, most say that they have. They report that these people spew falsehoods with no apparent concern for the truth, no obvious gain, no sense of ...

Even though the term pathological liar gets bandied about in everyday conversation, the actual phenomenon affects only a minority of people. Pathological lying has been noted as a psychological ...

Lying is a tricky thing. We’re all guilty of it, whether we’ve done it for more self-serving purposes or with good intentions. While some lies might be able to be excused as kind-hearted or even ...