How to Spot a Liar | Personality Profile of Credible Liar

This video answers the questions: What are the characteristics of a credible liar? What are some strategies that can be used to figure out if someone is a liar? What personality profile is associated with lying and lie detecting?

Verigin BL, Meijer EH, Bogaard G, Vrij A (2019) Lie prevalence, lie characteristics and

Bond, C. F. Jr., & DePaulo, B. M. (2006). Accuracy of deception judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10,214–234. doi: 10.1207/s15327957pspr1003_2

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[Falconlibrary]

I was a teacher for thirty years and yes, I could tell when students were lying, but that's because young kids and teenagers tend to have more "tells" than adults. Practice makes a good liar and a lot of young people just don't have the experience to do it right. If someone has no sense of shame and is a practiced liar, they're going to be very convincing. And then they'll run for public office.

[BunnyLang]

17:15 "So, narcissists believe they are more effective at lying than other people." This is hysterical. Thank you.

[DFahey-ouyc]

People with no moral compass can lie easily, and it will seem like they are telling the truth, because in their mind, it is the same thing.

[KatKitty]

Thank you for mentioning gaze aversion as not being an indicator of a liar. In some cultures, it is considered aggressive to look someone in the eye. I really appreciate how your assessments are very thorough.

[pursue]

Dr. Grande is incredible, and I ain't lyin'!

[GenreChowderStudios]

Dr. Grande: “Some people look like they’re lying even when they’re telling the truth.”

Me: *sweats unconvincingly*

[FaithfulTruthAndGod]

The ole:
"You can trust me" is a dead giveaway of a liar.
"I'm such an honest person" is another.
I lived believing those 2 lies for 22 years. Now I'm discovering the person I thought I knew and loved lied about everything using those 2 statements.
Thank you Dr Grande

[barbarawarren]

Dr. Grande, it's "incredibly amazing" that so many people have the audacity to ask how they can lie more credibly. It says a lot about the decline of integrity in our society.

[alexeysamokhin]

By far the most serious type of lie is false accusations. It has significantly greater damaging effect than fabrications.

[robertellison]

Liars had rather lie to your face so that they can read your reaction as they are telling it so that they can modify or adjust the lie to keep it believable. I think what makes a great liar is knowing who to tell what lie to and to be able to know who you have fooled and who is on to you. You then modify your behavior accordingly and continue.

[wonderwoman]

You’re so articulate, it is a pleasure to listen to you. A lot of the time, I listen to one of your videos before bed so I can simultaneously educate myself and drift off to the melodious sound :)

[cloverstartsover]

I think what makes a good liar are the charming people, it’s like you know they are lying but u brush it off because they’re so damn good at being likeable

[middleofnowhere]

If you know the liar in question and have had time to observe their patterns, it becomes much easier to tell when they are trying to con you. It's also easier to catch them. "Oh, you say that you will pay this back off the credit card if I allow you to charge it? All right, let's draft a repayment schedule and you will just sign and date it right here." .... And then the narc goes from 0 to 60 and throws a tantrum, because he never intended to pay, and then you deny him the use of the credit card.

[sahamal_savu]

People always think I'm a liar because eye contact makes me uncomfortable. All the way back to my parents screaming at me "I know you're lying cause you won't look at me!" Perhaps I didn't want to look at them because they were angry and accusing me of something I didn't do? I know I've lost out on jobs because in the interview I had a difficult time maintaining eye contact and they probably assumed I was dishonest. In reality I'm honest to a fault and regularly get accused of falsehoods. What a strange world we live in.

[Whunterth]

I think the best way to figure out who is a liar is by looking at their past. If this issue of lying has happened in the past it is most likely to happen again in the future. Great video as always Dr. Grande!

[mrs.reluctant]

Doctor, will you ever make a video about self-forgiveness? would love to hear you speak about that. 💗

[malabuha]

The dedication and the energy that you put into your every video is amazing.. that topic has so many angles to it, it's branching into philosophy, physics, theology, psychology And into politics (😁), parenting, growing up, house keeping, on the fun side haha. Honestly, no kidding, i admire the volume of your knowledge

[renep]

Dr. Grande,

The evidence of your dedication to the study of human psychological behavior is really nothing short of obviously being stratospherically superior. The sharing of it all, with us here, is phenomenally nothing short of being the epitome of benevolence at its finest.

No Lie.

[cindyrhodes]

Part of my Dr. Grande binge watching program today!

[debsabatino]

What about lying by omission. This is a snaky way of still being able to say you never lie.