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Lies Can Point to Mental Disorders or Signal Normal Growth

By Daniel Goleman — 1988

An article in the current American Journal of Psychiatry calls attention to the general neglect of lying as a topic for psychiatric research and marks the first systematic attempt to understand the role lying plays in normal everyday life as well as in specific psychiatric problems.

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The Psychological Reasons Why Some People Can’t Stop Lying

By the age of three or four, we all start to lie. At this point in our brain’s development, we learn that we have an incredibly versatile and powerful tool at our disposal—our language—and we can use it to actually play with reality and affect the outcome of what’s happening.

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Lindsay Dodgson
2018
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