``When something happens once you think about it as random,'' says Stanley Renshon, who is both a psychoanalyst and political scientist. ``When something happens twice, it's a trend. When something happens three and many more times thereafter, it's a pattern. And when an analyst sees a pattern like that, they want to know what accounts for it.
``Gore is a man who has really terrific, solid accomplishments. But he continually overstates the case on his own behalf.''
Robert S. Feldman, a social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts who researches lies, is not sure Gore's misstatements add up to much. The misfires are so easily verified that they don't seem like purposeful distortion, he said.
``Really good liars don't get caught,'' he said. ``Part of this phenomenon may just be a simple failure of memory. We remember things the way we want to remember them.''
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