The Encyclopedia of Deception examines lying from multiple perspectives drawn from the disciplines of social psychology, sociology, history, business, political science, cultural anthropology, moral philosophy, theology, law, family studies, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and more.

Table of Contents

• List of Articles
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Articles
• A
• Academia
• Accounting
• Adolescence, Lying in
• Advertising, Consumer Products
• African Americans
• Alibi
• Anderson, Anna (Anastasia)
• Animals
• Anthropology, Cultural
• April Fool's Day
• Aquinas, Thomas
• Aristotle
• Aroused Suspicion
• Asian Americans
• Assassin Bugs
• Attorneys
• Audience
• Authoritarian States
• B
• Bailey, Frederick George
• Bankruptcy
• Barnum, P. T.
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Battle of Fishguard
• Battle of the Bulge
• Beatles Hoax
• Behavioral Analysis Interview
• Betrayal
• Bible
• Big Lie Technique
• Birds
• Blair, Jayson
• Bluffing
• Bok, Sissela
• Bond, Charles
• Book of Mormon
• “Boy Who Cried Wolf”
• Bragging and Grandiosity
• Brain
• Brer Rabbit
• Burgoon, Judee
• Bush, George W.
• Business
• Butterflies
• C
• Camouflage
• Cardiff Giant
• Cardinal Newman
• Carnegie, Dale
• Catholic Church
• Caveat Emptor
• Central Intelligence Agency, U.S.
• Charles II Plot
• Cheating
• Childhood, Lying in
• Children, Development of Deception in
• Children's Sports Teams
• Churchill, Winston
• Civil War, U.S.
• Clausewitz, Carl von
• Clever Hans
• Clinton, Bill
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Cognitive Heuristics
• Cognitive Load
• Coherence and Correspondence
• Cold Fusion
• College Sports
• Colleges and Universities, For-Profit
• Collusion
• Colonialism
• Columbus, Christopher
• Communication
• Computer-Generated Images
• Con Man
• Concealed Information Test
• Confession
• Consciousness
• Consensual Reality
• Conspiracies
• Consumer Protection Laws
• Contagious Disease Outbreaks
• Content in Context
• Context
• Cooperation
• Corporate Fraud
• Corporations
• Cottingley Fairies
• Courtship, Deception in
• Coyote
• Credibility
• Cromwell, Oliver
• Crying
• D
• Daily Life, Lying in
• Darwin, Charles
• Deception, Attitudes Toward
• Deception, Characteristics of
• Deception, Definitions of
• Deception, Research on
• Deception and Technology
• Deception and Trust
• Deception Detection Accuracy
• Deception in Different Contexts
• Deception in Research Design
• Deception Motives
• Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment
• Deniability
• Denial
• Department of Defense, U.S.
• DePaulo, Bella
• Disasters
• Disbelief, Suspension of
• Discovered Deception, Reactions to
• Dishonesty
• Disinformation
• Distrust
• Dog–Human Deception
• Dot-Com Bubble
• Dreyfus Affair
• Drug Advertising
• Drugs
• Duchenne Smile
• Duping Delight
• E
• Edwards, John
• Eisenhower, Dwight
• Ekman, Paul
• Electroencephalography
• Emotions
• Enron
• Equivocation
• Espionage and Counterespionage
• Ethnic Differences
• Evidence, Strategic Use of
• Evolution and Natural Selection
• Exaggeration
• Eye Contact
• F
• Fairy Tales
• False Advertising
• False Confessions
• False Memories
• False Signals
• Fantasy and Imagination
• Federal Trade Commission
• Feigned Retreat
• Fiction
• Financial Markets
• Fireflies
• Fish
• Football
• Forgery, Art
• Frank, Mark
• Frankfurt, Harry G.
• Freud, Sigmund
• Frey, James
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• G
• Games, Children's
• Generalized Communicative Suspicion
• Glass, Stephen
• Goffman, Erving
• Gossip
• Government, Decline of Public Trust in
• Government Propaganda
• Great Gatsby, The
• Greenspan, Alan
• Guilt
• Gullibility
• H
• Half-Truths
• Hartzell, Oscar
• Hearst, William Randolph
• High School Sports
• Hispanic Americans
• Historical Narratives, False
• History of Deception: Ancient Civilizations
• History of Deception: Medieval Period
• History of Deception: Renaissance
• History of Deception: 1600 to 1700
• History of Deception: 1700 to 1800
• History of Deception: 1800 to 1900
• History of Deception: 1900 to 1950
• History of Deception: 1950 to the Present
• Hitler, Adolf
• Hockey
• Honest Baseline Behaviors
• Honesty
• Humor
• Volume 2
• I
• Iago (Shakespeare's Othello)
• Identity Theft
• Ideology
• Impression
• Inca Empire
• Infidelity
• Information Manipulation Theory 1
• Information Manipulation Theory 2
• Insects
• Insider Trading
• Intelligence
• Internet: Chat Rooms
• Internet: E-Mail
• Internet: E-Mail Scams
• Internet: Facebook and Social Media Sites
• Internet: Online Dating
• Interpersonal Deception Theory
• Invention of Lying, The
• Investigator Bias
• Investment Fraud
• Iran-Contra Affair
• Iraq War
• Irving, Clifford
• Islam
• J
• Jackalope
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Johnson, Samuel
• Judaism
• Justice
• K
• Kant, Immanuel
• Kennedy, John F.
• Knapp, Mark
• Korean War
• L
• Language
• Law and Law Enforcement
• Leakage
• Letters of Recommendation
• Libel and Slander
• Lie Acceptability
• Lie Bias
• Lie to Me
• Lies, Types of
• Linguistic Cues
• Lying, Accusations of
• Lying, Costs of
• Lying, Difficulty of
• Lying, Intentionality of
• Lying, Prevalence of
• Lying as Ability or Skill
• Lying as Exercise of Power
• Lying as Norm in Social Interactions
• M
• Machiavelli, Niccolò
• Machiavellianism
• Madoff, Bernard
• Magic Tricks
• Malingering
• Manipulation
• Marketing, Deceptive
• McCornack, Steven
• McCornack-Parks Model
• Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry
• Memoirs
• Memory
• Men
• Mental Effort in Lying
• Meta-Analysis
• Microfacial Expressions
• Middle East
• Military Deception
• Miller, Gerald
• Mimicry
• Morals and Ethics
• Motivational Impairment Effect
• Movies, Lying in
• Myth
• N
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Narcissism
• Native Americans
• Nazi Propaganda
• Neurophysiology
• New York Sun's Moon Series
• News Media: Internet
• News Media: Print
• News Media: Television and Radio
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Nixon, Richard
• Nonverbal Cues
• Normandy, Allied Invasion of
• Nostradamus
• O
• Oaths
• Operation Bodyguard
• Operation Mincemeat
• Operation Neptune
• Operation Quicksilver
• Othello Effect
• Overconfidence
• P
• Paltering
• Park, Hee Sun
• Park-Levine Probability Model
• Pathological Lying
• Perjury
• Photographs, Altered
• Piltdown Man
• Pinocchio
• Plagiarism
• Plants
• Plato
• Plausibility
• Poker
• Polygraph
• Primates
• Probing Effect
• Projection
• Psychoanalysis
• Public Relations
• Puffery
• R
• Racism
• Rationality
• Reaction Time
• Reality Monitoring
• Relationships: Family
• Relationships: Friends
• Relationships: Romantic
• Relationships: Sexual
• Repressed Memories
• Reputation
• Résumés
• Rose, Pete
• Rumor
• S
• Saint Augustine
• Santa Claus
• Sawyer, Tom
• Scientific Content Analysis
• Secrecy
• Self-Deception
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Justification
• Sender Demeanor
• Siege of Mafeking
• Situational Familiarity
• Smoke Screen
• Soccer (Football)
• Sock Puppetry
• Source Credibility
• Spanish-American Conquests
• Spin, Corporate
• Spin, Political
• Stalin, Josef
• Statement Validity Assessment
• Stewart, Martha
• Stylometry
• Sun Tzu
• T
• Tall Tales
• Terrorism
• Theory of Mind
• Thermal Imaging
• To Tell the Truth
• Tobacco Advertising
• Torture
• Transparent Liars
• Trojan Horse
• Truth
• Truth Bias
• U
• UFOs
• Urban Legends
• V
• Veracity Effect
• Vietnam War
• Vocal Stress Analysis
• Vrij, Aldert
• W
• War of the Worlds
• Ward, Lester F.
• Washington, George
• Watergate
• White House Press Secretaries
• White Lies
• Witness, False Testimony of
• Wizards of Lie Detection
• Women
• World War I
• World War II
• Glossary
• Resource Guide
• Appendix: The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported Lies
• Photo Credits