Psychology: Liars tend to have a higher cognitive ability, study finds

People who are better at making up'bulls**t' explanations for things tend to have a higher cognitive ability than their peers, a study has concluded. Experts from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, conducted tests to explore the link between people's willingness and skill at lying and their cognitive abilities. Fortunately, even though smarter people are better at making up nonsense, the team found that they were less likely to do so than their less-intelligent counterparts. The researchers also found that people who are more willing to make things up are also more susceptible themselves to believing profound-sounding twaddle. Similar results -- that liars are more vulnerable to misinformation -- were reported back in March by researchers from the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada.