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• ‘Keep it plausible’: expert advice on how to lie and not get caught

  24-01-2025 19:01
  
  As The Traitors final airs, Prof Richard Wiseman – a psychologist and magician – says telling a good lie is ‘very difficult’As The Traitors final airs on BBC One, a show in which the faithfuls battle to expose the traitors to win a cash prize, we spoke to an expert in the psychology of deception on how to lie.Richard Wiseman, a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, has an interest in deception both academically and profess
  
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• The painful consequences of personality disorder diagnosis | Letters

  24-01-2025 18:41
  
  This diagnosis is a label given to survivors of abuse and should not be used with children, writes Keir Harding. Plus a parent writes of how medical professionals abandoned their sonScout Tzofiya Bolton painfully illustrates the neglect and brutality that can arise once mental health difficulties are understood as a “disordered personality” (Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun, 18 January).The emotionally unstable
  
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