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Welcome to this week's mini-soda, Broughton Mango. I'm your host, Stephanie Sue. And how

are pathological liars so balsy? Have you thought about it? Have you taken a second

out of your day to really soak it in? I mean, how do they have so much audacity? How do

they have the guts to tell the most outrageous lies without any, not even like an inkling

of shame? Well, the science behind it is fascinating. Most pathological liars have an underlying

personality disorder. So a fascinating detail that I learned recently is that they have

the opposite ratio of cortisol and testosterone.

Okay.

Then most people. So cortisol is like the stress chemical, right? And it typically stops

you from being overly aggressive, taking unreasonable risks because you don't want to be overly

stressed out. But pathological liars have less cortisol and way more testosterone.

That's scary.

That's very scary. A lot of them even believe they're on lies. They're called functionally

delusional by a lot of psychologists. So sometimes they can even pass a lie detector test

by believing their own lies. And even if they're caught lying, it's said that they can rewrite

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