> Only a sociopath, when confronted with a question they don't know the answer to, confidently makes something up. The human may not know the answer, but they g

> Only a sociopath, when confronted with a question they don't know the answer to, confidently makes something up. The human may not know the answer, but they generally know whether they know the answer or not. What? No. Literally fake memories are such a well-known phenomenon the cops will abuse it to generate fake solutions to crimes etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation Also there are people for which compulsive lying is a pathological problem, who are definitely not sociopaths, and there are many people who demonstrate the processes to non-pathological/non-clinical levels. People will, indeed, “just make it up” perhaps especially if they don’t really know the answer, because that’s socially embarrassing etc - that’s literally the opposite of sociopathy. https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/compulsive-lying https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/compulsive-lying