What podcasts say about Leanne Ten Brinke
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What Leanne Ten Brinke has said on podcasts
36 statements · 14 positive · 18 negative · 2 mixed · 2 neutral
Brief observation can reveal a kernel of psychopathic personality traits within about five seconds.
“you can get a kernel of truth about someone's personality, the extent to which they're psychopathic, in about 5 seconds”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 4:17
Five-second observers’ psychopathy ratings correlate reasonably with trained clinical psychologists’ ratings.
“there's actually a pretty reasonable correlation between the ratings of these, like, you know, naive folks who watch 5 seconds and the trained clinical psychologists”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 5:02
People high in psychopathic traits may pair happy-looking smiles with hostile language.
“The people who are high in these psychopathic personality traits, they were showing these kinds of, like, you know, very happy-looking smiles as they were saying really hostile things.”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 6:16
Four verbal and nonverbal cues initially predicted lying with about 90% accuracy.
“we were able to use 4 different cues, so 2 verbal and 2 nonverbal, to predict with about 90% accuracy who was lying and who was telling the truth”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 9:03
A later replication found substantially smaller deception-detection effects.
“we tried to replicate that more recently, and we found much more modest effects”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 9:16
Liars generally provide fewer details than truth-tellers.
“people who are lying tend to give fewer details”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 10:20
Preparation can make liars resemble truth-tellers in the amount of information provided.
“Whenever people have time to prepare, they can start to look pretty much like a truth teller on the amount of information they have.”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 10:43
Lying tends to increase cortisol reactivity compared with telling the truth.
“people who are lying tend to have an increased cortisol reactivity relative to people who are telling the truth”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 11:47
Untrained people detect lies with roughly 54% accuracy on average.
“On average, people perform at about 54%. Percent accuracy.”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 14:37
Learning to ask better questions is essential for detecting lies.
“learning how to ask good questions is actually a really kind of essential tool for detecting lies”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 15:31
Assessing statement verifiability is better than combining unreliable behavioral cues to detect lies.
“if you just ask, how verifiable was that statement? That's a better strategy for trying to accurately detect lies than trying to use all of these other cues”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 19:11
Research does not support gaze aversion as a reliable sign of lying.
“there's no research to suggest that that is true”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 20:47
Autistic people may be perceived as lying more often when they are truthful.
“people who are on the autism spectrum are perceived as lying more when they're actually telling the truth”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 21:25
Narcissism and related traits vary continuously rather than forming a clear binary diagnosis.
“these exist on a continuum. There's no clear like moment where it becomes, you are a narcissist versus not a narcissist.”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 25:46
Men tend to score somewhat higher than women on the discussed dark personality traits.
“men tend to score somewhat higher than women, and that's quite a consistent finding”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 32:47
People high in sadism tend to take pleasure in others’ pain.
“people who are relatively high in sadism tend to, they take pleasure in other people's pain”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 33:47
- on Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathyMixedSep 7, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Psychopathy increases violence risk, but many highly psychopathic people are not violent.
“psychopathy is like a risk factor for violent behavior, but there's plenty of people who would score relatively highly and never engage in violent behavior”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 35:44
Clinical-level psychopathy affects about one percent of the population.
“That's about 1% of the population.”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 37:01
Variation in psychopathy and narcissism scores is approximately half genetic and half environmental.
“the variation in someone's score on that personality trait is about 50% genetic and about 50% environmental”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 38:31
Early intervention can reduce children’s likelihood of developing high psychopathic traits.
“early intervention with kids really can help reduce the likelihood of them developing high levels of psychopathic traits as they grow older”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 41:54
Child abuse is associated with increased likelihood of developing dark personality traits.
“physically harming them, that's child abuse, is associated with increased likelihood of developing these traits over time”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 43:28
People high in psychopathy tend to have smaller, less active amygdalas.
“amygdalas in people with high levels of psychopathy tend to be both smaller and less active”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 45:50
Consistent cognitive behavioral therapy can reduce recidivism among incarcerated people with psychopathy.
“if they do consistently engage in cognitive behavioral therapies, you can reduce the likelihood of recidivism”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 47:07
People who report telling more everyday lies also report greater loneliness.
“the more lies that people tell, they just self-report on how much they lie in their everyday life, the more lonely they feel”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 53:08
Liars are perceived as less warm, competent, and moral by interaction partners.
“people who are lying are perceived as less warm. They're perceived as less competent. They're perceived as less moral.”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 54:17
High warmth combined with high competence is associated with greater perceived trustworthiness.
“this warmth, high warmth, high competence tends to be associated with high trustworthiness”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 58:39
- on Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathyNegativeSep 7, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Higher psychopathy was associated with less governmental influence and lower hedge-fund-manager earnings.
“high levels of psychopathy was associated with less influence in government. It was also associated with making less money, as a hedge fund manager”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 1:02:14
Highly narcissistic people may initially appear confident, likable, and leadership-capable.
“The people who were high in narcissism came across really well in that first interaction”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 1:03:56
Narcissistic people may be judged more negatively after prolonged group interaction.
“as the course of the term went by, people were like, this person's actually really hostile and like doesn't do their work and they're a pain in the butt”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 1:04:12
Explicit rules reduce selfish behavior among people with elevated dark personality traits.
“establishing clear rules, making them explicit, decreases the likelihood of kind of selfish behavior”
Open the episode · Human Lie Detector: The #1 Sign They’re Lying To You, Catch Liars Instantly! | Dr Leanne Ten BrinkeListen at 1:20:03
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