A sociopath is a pathological liar someone who will lie just for the fun of it.

They dangle the carrot.

Narcissists and sociopaths are masters of stroking their victims egos when it suits them.

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They might express how excited they are to one day build a future with you.

They may insinuate helping you with a big goal of yours or facilitating your possession of a lifelong dream.

While youre busy investing in them, theyre busy sinking their claws into their other victims.

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They pinpoint what you most deeply desire, then withhold it or give it to someone else.

They are also immensely gleeful whentriangulatingyou with the person theyre treating favorably.

They enjoy showing off the fact that they gave what youve always wanted to another unsuspecting victim.

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They use emotional language, even though theyre emotionless.

Research has shown that psychopaths tend to use more emotional language than their peers to manipulate their targets.

Its their way of trying to seem more human.

Theyll re-use you and re-idealize you as narcissistic supply once they see you have something valuable they need.

Psychopaths are really good at saying just the right thing at the right time.

They can parrot back what theyve heard other people say but their facial expressions dont match their words.

Their ability to verbalize feelings is most likely a learned behavior, as opposed to a genuine emotional experience.

A sociopath is a pathological liar someone who will lie just for the fun of it.

They draw amusement and entertainment from their victims having to defend themselves against baseless accusations.

Another lynchpin is dishonesty.

Lying for the sake of lying.

Lying just to see whether you’re able to trick people.

And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects.

The other thing that needs to be stressed is that sociopaths are often extremely charming.

They are people who are better than you and me at charming people, at being charismatic.Dr.

Normal, healthy people do not go around deliberately harming others or manipulating them.