The purpose of this paper is to review recent research about the possibility that some people
are more honest than others and about the causes of them being so. We tackle four big …

The past two decades have seen major developments in the study of behavioral (dis)
honesty and its measurement as well as a surge of interest in the location of trait honesty …

Testing truth-default theory, individual-level variation in lie frequency was parsed from within-
individual day-to-day variation (good/bad lie days) by examining 116,366 lies told by 632 …

Parenting by lying is a practice in which parents lie to their children to influence their
emotions or behavior. Recently, researchers have tried to document the nature of this …

Objective Among basic personality traits, Honesty‐Humility yields the most consistent,
negative link with dishonest behavior. The theoretical conceptualization of Honesty …

Abstract The Dark Triad focuses on socially aversive personality traits (Machiavellianism,
psychopathy, and narcissism). Individuals with high levels of these traits are associated with …

Why are there few reliable deception cues and why is deception detection a challenge?
These questions are related and have puzzled social scientists, leading to few universal …

Past research explored the relationship between personality, moral disengagement, and
deception and found a general trend showing that the lower people score on the big five …

Liars and truth-tellers often communicate differently. When tasked with writing deceptive text,
humans use prior knowledge and experiences to intentionally deceive their target …

Prior work suggests those who lie prolifically tend to be younger and self-identify as male
compared to those who engage in everyday lying, but little research has developed an …