confabulators

People are master confabulators: we so effectively justify our moral intuitions that we're convinced they're not intuitions, but are instead derived from perfectly rational principles.

More on Empathy and the Law William Harryman 2009

But they don't want to quit and the only way to justify staying in the obviously lost race is to build their resentment to the level of self-righteousness, and, like most confabulators, they have begun to believe their own propaganda.

Guy T. Saperstein: What Game is Hillary Playing? 2008

The issue of how to deal with knowledgable confabulators liars is a difficult one.

Stern Review « Climate Audit 2006

They are in denial and, being pathological confabulators, they rationalize their transgressions, claiming that the children were merely being educated for their own good and, anyhow, derived great pleasure from it.

The Roots of Pedophilia 2006

According to what I have heard from my mother, who was in the Queen of Navarre's service and knew some secrets of her novels, and was herself one of the confabulators (devisantes), it was my late uncle La Chastaigneraye, who was brusque, hasty, and rather volatile.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

Brantôme, for instance, tells us that "his mother knew some of the secrets of the novels, and that she was one of the confabulators" (une des devisantes).

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

He beckoned to him in silence, and retired, unobserved by the two confabulators, through the same door by which he had entered.

Calderon the Courtier, a Tale Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

If you click on "atheist" you find these neo-con confabulators writing: "Unlike Christianity, which is supported by a large body of sound evidence, atheism has no proof and evidence supporting its ideology."

LT Saloon 2010

These confabulators by definition had false memories, and evidently didn't falsify them in any sense of their own choosing.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

All the "skeptics" and the "confabulators", could try sticking their heads in plastic bags, with rubber bands around the neck and then have a smoke, then go and sit in the sun.

Permaculture Research Institute of Australia 2009