Category: Lying
What is Compulsive Lying?
Compulsive lying (also called pathological lying or habitual lying) is best described as a habit of lying. To qualify as a compulsive liar, the individual must regularly lie for no personal gain. The lies are quite often...
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Warning Signs That You’re Dating a Narcissist
Warning signs that you’re dating a narcissistic person How can you detect the warning signs...
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I Caught My Child Lying: How to Manage Sneaky Behavior in Kids
Let’s face it; we are probably all guilty of some type of “sneaking around” when we were younger....
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When you catch your child in a lie, it’s natural to feel betrayed, hurt, angry and frustrated. But here’s the truth: lying is normal. It’s wrong, but it’s normal. In fact, we all do it to some degree....
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A Classification of Lies and Confabulations
A statement constitutes a lie only if at least one of the interlocutors knows it to be untrue, yet...
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Lying as a Form of Control
All of us, as we were growing up, learned a myriad of ways to try to have control over getting...
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On Lying in Adolescence
Several questions submitted recently to this site are from parents concerned that their children...
Read MoreChronic Lying
Chronic lying is an interesting topic and can be broken down into a number of categories as I’ll go into below. When surveys ask people who they think chronically lie, there are a few answers that seem to always come up....
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