All posts tagged: Liars

‘We Were Liars’ Season Two Casts Six New Series Regulars

‘We Were Liars’ Season Two Casts Six New Series Regulars

Published by Daniella Wilson

A new cast of characters is joining the We Were Liars universe for the Prime Video’s series second season. Josh Dallas, Costa D’Angelo, Parker Lapaine, Peyton List, Elysia Roorbach and Madison Wolfe have been cast as series regulars for the show’s second season. The series, which was renewed for a second season last year, will follow E. Lockhart’s 2022 prequel novel, Family of Liars as well as feature new stories about the current cast of characters, the author teased. “The prequel novel is a flashback to when the mom characters are teenagers. So you will see a whole story about that, but you will still see Cadence, you will still see Johnny, and you will still see all those sisters as adults. The showrunners are cooking up new stories for them,” E. Lockhart told The Hollywood Reporter. Dallas will portray a young Harris, following David Morse who starred as Harris Sinclair in season one. Tell Me Lies star D’Angelo will star as Pfeff, a “New England college kid with a mysterious edge.” Parker will portray a young Carrie, a role …

Tucker Carlson skewered by The View for having ‘liar’s remorse’ after apology about Trump support

Tucker Carlson skewered by The View for having ‘liar’s remorse’ after apology about Trump support

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Tucker Carlson has been roasted by The View over his apology for his role in helping get Donald Trump elected to the White House. Hosting his own brother, Republican operative Buckley Carlson, on his self-titled show Monday, the conservative began by attacking Trump’s Operation Epic Fury before acknowledging the role he played in securing Trump the presidency. “You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be,” Carlson said before adding, “And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.” The View’s panelists did not take kindly to Carlson’s apology. After a clip of his mea culpa played during Tuesday morning’s broadcast, Joy Behar uttered a simple, “Oh, please,” before Sunny Hostin jumped in. “Whatever. I don’t believe him. He’s not getting a bear hug from me,” Hostin …

The Best Way to Stop Liars in Their Tracks

The Best Way to Stop Liars in Their Tracks

Published by Jenni Sidey

People who lie can cause you all kinds of heartache. They trick, cheat, and manipulate you, possibly costing you money if not emotional pain. Why people engage in deception is one thing, but figuring out how to avoid their trap is quite another. To protect yourself, the avoiding part is probably more important than the understanding part. Erin started to get into a new relationship with Pat, someone she met in her work at a bank. She didn’t ever share official duties with Pat in the workplace, so there were no issues there. A few weeks after they started dating, though, Erin knew that Pat didn’t drive, but she was shocked and hurt to learn that Pat had an arrest record for driving under the influence. It may have been an error of “omission,” but to Erin, it definitely felt like an error of commission; i.e., a lie. A Social Informational Processing Theory of Trust According to Zhejiang Normal University’s Mengqi Xu and colleagues (2025), the social context is everything when it comes to processing …

When Faced With Liars, Skepticism Can Help

When Faced With Liars, Skepticism Can Help

Published by Jenni Sidey

If you find yourself in a relationship, workplace, or political environment that is constructed more on lies than truth, it is helpful to use psychological research to remain safe and sane. Lies target our mental health, yet we receive little training on how to keep our brains protected from this kind of abuse. Our brains were not designed to pour resources into trying to figure out if someone is telling the truth or not. We evolved to need connection and community to survive. In general, our brains give people the benefit of the doubt to preserve cognitive resources for many other cognitive demands. We are gullible by nature, and even highly educated and advanced individuals can be manipulated by falsehoods. That said, there are strategies that all of us can use if we are concerned that someone is trying to mislead us. These strategies can alert us to liars before our brains get traumatized. Abuse Culture Outlined in detail in The Gaslit Brain, six strategies can protect you from the lies of bullying, gaslighting, and …