What Is the Connection Between Personality Disorders and Lying?

One of the weird personality disorders-perverted psychological behaviors that do not aim at fraud, but only lie to obtain satisfaction.

Lie

One of the weird personality disorders-perverted psychological behaviors that do not aim at fraud, but only lie to obtain satisfaction.

Lie addiction is that some people have no control over their lying behavior, and even become a natural behavior. Each of us lies.

Some lies are well-intentioned, and some are compelling reasons, and these are understandable. However, as long as people who are liar do not lie, they will feel uncomfortable. At this time, lying is not only a cover-up or exaggeration, but a mental illness.

Chinese name

Lie

Name

Lie

Types of

Psychiatry

Attributes

Strange personality disorder

Harmful

None (potential, social)

People who are liar often make up their own behavior into a modified or completely fictional version. Usually manifested in children who cannot distinguish reality from imagination, mostly

Three psychiatrists at the University of California, Los Angeles published a paper saying that pathological lying is likely to be caused by some kind of mental illness, and most people who lie have bad memories. Because the function of the anterior lobes (nerves) of the brain that evaluates information is weak, they cannot evaluate the accuracy of their own speech, so they lie as if they were telling the truth. Scholars have listed five "morbid" lies:

Lies are inconsistent with the facts, but they are a manifestation of demand and a dream, and they have practical value. If, in real life, there are no lies at all, this world may become a pathologically rationalist or pathologically rigorous society.

Psychologists believe that human behavior is often affected by various consciousness, unconsciousness, subconsciousness, etc. accumulated in the growth experience, and is not able to grasp itself. When people are driven by environmental pressures or internal desires, they may often behave out of self-control. The degree of good or bad depends on the person's views on the matter and the ability to respond. Sometimes, words and deeds that completely deviate from their beliefs and cognition. Then lies came into being.

Lying may seem simple on the surface, but the motivation is complicated.

1. Protect yourself. Self-defensive lying to avoid some responsibility and protect yourself from pain.

2. Seek benefits. Lying for material and other benefits. The motive of this kind of lies is to use lies to defraud money, property, reputation, etc. to meet their needs.

3. Prank. Teasing others to get abnormal satisfaction from others' reactions and lying.

4. Boast yourself and pretend. In order to attract the attention of others, boast and express themselves in front of others, and like to win the attention and envy of others.

5. Retaliation. Lie is used to retaliate against others, and to vent hostility, anger, and other lies to others.

6. Whimsical. It is a lying act that expresses the fantasy content in one's head as a fact. The motivation for lying is mainly in younger children.

7. Use lies to avoid painful experiences or memories: dealing with people with a cold attitude and strong defense. Show everything is OK, can bear painful encounters and feelings.

Some people are born with the ability to recognize lies, such as Detective Poirot, whether it is in the "Nile Massacre" or "Orient Express Murder", at the end, when Poirot's expression is leisurely but logically and closely pierce each layout carefully, structure All ingenious lies must arouse his sparse head. This process of seeking the truth and the final result, often makes people feel an adventure of thought. What is the lie-wizard in reality? Scientists have done a lot of research to test people's ability to tell lies.

University of California psychologist Paul Ekman found that most people are not good at identifying who is lying. Even the police, medical scientists, judges and customs officers are no exception. Only 53% of those who can judge correctly are.

Studies show that in 47% of cases, polygraphs mistake innocent people as criminals.

In the mid-1980s, a lie-recognition wizard appeared. His name was JJ Newberry, and he scored a perfect score in the polygraph test. Initially, he was only a senior investigator at the U.S. Federal Tobacco, Firearms and Firearms Agency. Later, Ekman and O'Sullivan jointly sought out the world's lies-wise wizards. In a series of studies involving 14,000 people, 29 people were finally identified as witches to identify lies. Preliminary analysis confirms that flashing facial expressions can leak a person's anger or guilt, which can be called a "lie display". The Literacy Wizard has the ability to distinguish these small changes, although the process is only 1/5 seconds. O'Sullivan said: "Our liar wizards have the ability to distinguish nuances of facial expressions."

Of the 29 Wizards, 10 are women, which is more than researchers expected in advance because the number of women in the study is relatively small. Previous research has never shown women to be better at telling lies. Experts believe that the reason may be that when one's facial expression changes, women can more accurately judge the true emotions of the other person than men.

Ekman's previous research found that people with excellent lie-telling skills often suffer damage to their left brain, weakening their ability to understand sentences, forcing them to rely more on nonverbal cues, such as facial expressions. The results of this latest study are even more curious: Lies to identify Wizards often have difficult childhoods, and they are more sensitive to the emotional changes of others in the family. Alcohol abuse by parents, unusual family backgrounds, such as parents who are immigrants or mothers doing hard work, were not common at the time, and similar experiences made them particularly sensitive to nonverbal cues.