Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When dealing with people, it’s important to tell the difference between an occasional fib and a chronic habit of falsehood.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...