A deception epidemic is upon us. When confronted with difficult decisions, don’t act while the judicious, fair-minded, and enlightened jury–even if it’s only the one in your own head–is still out.

Here are four tips for keeping from being lied to and to catch it when it happens.

“Lying has destroyed careers and convulsed countries” Pamela explains.

Pamela explains how Trump, a con man, identifies marks and plays to their “darker instincts.”

How an epiphany at her Harvard Business School reunion led Pamela to become a LieSpotting expert

There’s lots of things we think people do when they’re lying that they don’t do.”

Pamela divulges how to tell when a political candidate is lying.

What it’s like to be a LieSpotter.

Pamela explains the “truth bias” in which the conscious brain overrides the unconscious part that can spot a liar.

Pamela explains why good actors are not necessarily “good liars.”

Pamela tells ABC how to identify truths from falsehoods.

Pamela offers up five signs that someone is lying.