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Historical Perspectives on the Study of Lying and Deception

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Academic studies of lie detection and the interpersonal behavior of liars have proliferated over the last 60 years. We offer a brief history of the field’s emergence and progress. We begin with a review of the various cultural, philosophical, scientific, and technological milestones from antiquity through the twentieth century that shaped the formation of lying and deception as a topic of intellectual inquiry. Subsequently, we consider advances in research and theory in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that have spurred the topic area’s growth from a modest academic specialty into a major multidisciplinary field.

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McGlone, M.S., Knapp, M.L. (2019). Historical Perspectives on the Study of Lying and Deception. In: Docan-Morgan, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96334-1_1

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