Functional MRI (fMRI)-based lie detection has been marketed as a tool for enhancing
personnel selection, strengthening national security and protecting personal reputations …

Memory disturbances frequently occur after brain damage, but can be associated with
psychiatric illnesses as well. Amnesia—the most severe form of memory impairment—has …

Why do people lie? Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie? How can
lies be detected? Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of …

Dishonesty is an integral part of our social world, influencing domains ranging from finance
and politics to personal relationships. Anecdotally, digressions from a moral code are often …

Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications demonstrates how
knowledge of nonverbal messages can affect successful communication in the real world …

Information Manipulation Theory 2 (IMT2) is a propositional theory of deceptive discourse
production that conceptually frames deception as involving the covert manipulation of …

Little is known about the cognition of deception (Gombos, 2006). We propose a cognitive
account of serious lying (ie, deception involving high stakes) in response to a solicitation of a …

Previous neuroimaging studies have implicated the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and nearby brain
regions in deception. This is consistent with the hypothesis that lying involves the executive …

The main question that we typically have about lying is whether someone (a politician, a
witness, a spouse, and so on) is lying to us. And we frequently expend a lot of energy to find …

This chapter discusses three verbal veracity assessment tools: Statement Validity
Assessment (SVA), Reality Monitoring (RM) and Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN). SVA is …