Recently, in a number of high-profile cases, defendants who were prosecuted, convicted,
and sentenced on the basis of false confessions have been exonerated through DNA …

The authors report a meta-analysis of individual differences in detecting deception, confining
attention to occasions when people judge strangers' veracity in real-time with no special …

Passionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-
breaking work that will challenge your core human values and perspectives on violence …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication. Authored by …

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 …

A meta-analysis was conducted to determine if there were individual differences in the ability
to detect deception. On the basis of 108 studies covering 16,537 subjects, the results …

Lying is common among adults and a more complex issue in children. In this article, I review
two decades of empirical evidence about lying in children from the perspective of speech act …

Prosocial lie-telling behavior in children between 3 and 11 years of age was examined
using an undesirable gift paradigm. In the first condition, children received an undesirable …

There is little support for the long-standing assumption that judges and jurors can accurately
assess credibility. According to Dangerous Decisions Theory (DDT; Porter & ten Brinke …

Paine (1737–1809) was born in Thetford, England, on February 9, 1737. Son of a Quaker
craftsman, he embodied a “man of the people” and he always thought of the people (feeling …