1.Most people lie.
大部分人都会撒谎。
2.In a given week, about 95 percent of people report lying.
在给定的一周内，大约95%的人都报告称说过谎。
3.Though dishonesty is widespread, thankfully most people lie infrequently, typically telling zero lies on any single day.
尽管不诚实现象普遍存在，但幸运的是大多数人很少说谎，通常在大部分的时间里都不会说谎。
4.However, a small proportion of people lie a lot.
然而有少部分的人会经常说谎。
5.In our work, we have found that a small group of people in our world (a little more than 5 percent) tell half of all lies.
在我们的工作中，我们发现世界上的一小部分人(略多于5%)说了世界上一半的谎言。
6. These prolific liars are often referred to as pathological, compulsive, or habitual liars.
这些多产的说谎者通常被称为病态、强迫性或习惯性说谎者。
7.Perhaps you have had the misfortune of meeting such a person.
也许你不幸已经遇到过这样的人。
8.Although pathological liars may be a fixture of our society, there has been surprisingly little scientific research on them.
尽管病态说谎者可能是我们社会的一个固定部分，但令人惊讶的是，对他们的科学研究却很少。
9.There is not a universally accepted definition and theory of pathological lying.
病理性说谎还没有一个普遍接受的定义和理论。
10.However, most people conceptually understand pathological liars as people who tell lies with extraordinary frequency.
然而，大多数人在概念上将病态说谎者理解为说谎频率超常的人。
11.Recognizing the need to characterize pathological liars further, we conducted a study focusing on how common it is to interact with pathological liars and the nature of those interactions.
认识到进一步描述病态说谎者的必要性后，我们进行了一项研究，重点关注与病态说谎者互动的普遍程度以及这些互动的性质。
12.We predicted that most people would report having contact with a pathological liar and that they would report that the liars told primarily self-serving lies.
我们预测，大多数人会报告与病态说谎者有过接触，他们会报告说谎者说的主要是自私的谎言。
13.We conducted a study in which we asked 251 adults about their beliefs about pathological lying.
我们进行了一项研究，询问了251名成年人对病理性说谎的看法。
14.We also inquired whether they had ever interacted with someone that they believed to be a pathological, compulsive, or habitual liar.
我们还询问了他们是否曾经与他们认为是病态的、强迫性的或习惯性说谎者交往过。
15.People who acknowledged contact with a pathological liar were then asked further questions regarding the types of lies the pathological liar told, how they knew the person was lying, and what the consequences were for the liar and themselves.
承认与病态说谎者接触过的人会被问更多的问题，关于病态说谎者说的谎言的类型，他们如何知道这个人在说谎，以及说谎者和他们自己会有什么后果。
16.We found that 91 percent of respondents believed they had contact with a pathological liar.
我们发现，91%的受访者认为他们与病态说谎者有过接触。
17.100 percent of them indicated that the liar told primarily self-serving lies.
100%的人表示说谎者说的主要是自私的谎言。
18.They estimated that the pathological liars they knew told 10 or more lies per day.
他们估计他们认识的病态说谎者每天会说10个或更多的谎言。
19.In contrast, they estimated that most people tell approximately two lies per day.
相比之下，他们估计大多数人每天大约说两次谎。
20.They also reported that almost half of the lies told by the pathological liars seemed to be told for no apparent reason.
他们还报告说，几乎一半的病态说谎者所说的谎言似乎都没有明显的原因。
21.Further, we asked what the pathological liars lied about, we found the following pattern:
此外，我们问病态说谎者撒了什么谎，我们发现了以下模式:
22.Most of them reported that they knew the person was lying because the lies were so unbelievable.
他们中的大多数人报告说，他们知道这个人在撒谎，因为这些谎言太不可信了。
23.They suggested that the most common negative consequences for the pathological liars were poor emotional and social outcomes, such as being ostracised or having tumultuous relationships with others.
他们认为，病态说谎者最常见的负面后果是糟糕的情感和社会结果，比如被排斥或与他人关系混乱。
24.Likewise, the dishonesty of the pathological liars caused negative outcomes for the people in our study.
同样，病态说谎者的不诚实给我们研究中的人带来了负面结果。
25.Those negative outcomes were primarily emotional and social difficulties.
这些负面结果主要是情感和社交困难。
26.Our study represents an initial examination of people’s experiences with pathological liars.
我们的研究代表了人们对病态说谎者体验的初步检验。
27.There are no widely accepted diagnostic criteria for pathological lying, and the definitions of pathological lying vary considerably.
病理性说谎没有被广泛接受的诊断标准，病理性说谎的定义也有很大差异。
28.Overall, most scholars (and the participants of this study) see pervasive lying as a key criterion for identifying someone as a pathological liar.
总的来说，大多数学者(和这项研究的参与者)认为普遍说谎是识别一个人是病态说谎者的关键标准。
29.The results of this study present the experiences people have had with pathological liars.
这项研究的结果展示了人们对病态说谎者的体验。
30.Those experiences appear to be quite common and overwhelmingly negative.
这些经历似乎很常见，而且绝大多数都是负面的。
31.These findings may serve as a starting point for understanding the roles of pathological liars in our society.
这些发现可以作为理解病态说谎者在我们社会中的角色的起点。
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