Why Liars Prefer To Hide The Truth

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]This is deception tip number 65. Liars prefer to conceal the truth rather than coming up with an entirely new story.

[00:00:10]They want to conceal this truth. If there's something that happened, they are more interested in kind of covering it up and leading people in the wrong direction rather than pretending that okay, it didn't happen. Let's say something else happened and go with it from there. Because our brains encode memory in a sporadic and kind of messy way. It's not neat and orderly like a file cabinet. It's everything is just thrown in there and then we can remember it or recall it as it started to be stimulated or probed through other events that happen. Therefore, if they did that, if they say, "Okay, we're going to pretend this didn't happen and instead we're going to invent this new thing and say it happened." Memory would still serve up this old information.

[00:00:55]Therefore, if there was some kind of a spontaneous trigger that happened and they started talking about it, it would be very difficult for them to remember, consciously remember to tell this lie over what really happened. Tired of being lied to day in and day out? Want to learn how to spot a liar? Get the revised and expanded edition of the deception tips ebook on spensercoffman.com.