The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss: Professional Papers [Paperback]

Bella DePaulo Ph.D. (Author)

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Publication Date: July 29, 2009

Award-winning social scientist and Harvard Ph.D. Bella DePaulo has been studying the psychology of deceiving and detecting deceit for decades. The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss is a collection of six of her most influential professional papers: 1. Lying in Everyday Life. 2. Who Lies? 3. Everyday Lies in Close and Casual Relationships 4. Truth and Investment: Lies Are Told to Those Who Care 5. Nonverbal Behavior and Self-Presentation 6. Cues to Deception The papers are the original reports of research and theory widely cited in other scholarly papers as well as in the national media.

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About the Author

Bella DePaulo (PhD, Harvard) has authored more than 100 scholarly publications, many of them on the topics of deception and nonverbal communication, and is one of the foremost academic experts in the field. She has contributed both original empirical work on the communication of deception, and important review papers. DePaulo's work on deception has been described in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many other major national and international newspapers. It has also been reported in magazines such as Time, The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Readers' Digest, and U.S. News and World Report. Dr. DePaulo has appeared as an expert on deception on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, PBS, the BBC, and the Discovery Channel. She has also lectured nationally and internationally. She has addressed criminal attorneys, physicists, judges, and mental health practitioners. She was an invited speaker at a NATO Advanced Study Institute on credibility assessment, she directed a seminar and workshop for the Advanced Studies Institute for Polygraphers (in Charlottesville, Virginia), and she was an invited participant in "The Science of Deception: Integration of Theory and Practice," co-sponsored by the intelligence community (CIA, FBI, etc.), the RAND Corporation, and the American Psychological Association. Bella DePaulo is also an expert on the place of people who are single in society and in science. She is the author of "Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After."

Product Details

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (July 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1448665353
• ISBN-13: 978-1448665358
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #726,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm Bella DePaulo. I'm a 50-something year old and I have always been single. I love my single life. But I do not love all of the ridiculous assumptions people make about me when they first meet me and learn that I am single. (No, I do not spend my evenings crying in my beer.) I'm also a social scientist (with a PhD in social psychology from Harvard). I write about singles with a passion. My work on this topic (and others) has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Time magazine, and many others. There have been feature stories in Psychology Today and the AARP magazine. I've also been on the Today show and other morning shows, CNN, NPR, and many others. I've written op-eds for publications such as the New York Times, Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. I have been a visiting professor of psychology at UC Santa Barbara since 2000. I think that makes me a permanent visitor. Get in touch if you would like to hire me to speak at your event.

My first book on singles was "Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After." My second is a collection of 89 essays, "Single with Attitude: Not Your Typical Take on Health and Happiness, Love and Money, Marriage and Friendship."

I am also an expert on the social psychology of lying. I wrote a short book, "Behind the Door of Deceit: Understanding the Biggest Liars in Our Lives." I also published a collection of professional papers, "The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss." You can read more about all of my work on my website, www.BellaDePaulo.com.