The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported Lies

By Kim B. Serota, Timothy R. Levine, Franklin J. Boster. 2010

339 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Claire Cardie
2. Myle Ott
3. Jeffrey T. Hancock
4. Timothy R. Levine
5. R. Halevy
6. Shaul Shalvi
7. Bruno Verschuere
8. Kim B. Serota

In Language and Linguistics

1. Timothy R. Levine
2. R. Halevy
3. Shaul Shalvi
4. Bruno Verschuere
5. Kim B. Serota
6. Jeffrey T. Hancock
7. Myle Ott
8. Nathan Oesch

In Social Psychology

1. Timothy R. Levine
2. Maria Hartwig
3. Jeffrey T. Hancock
4. Kim B. Serota
5. Claire Cardie
6. Myle Ott
7. Shaul Shalvi
8. R. Halevy

Citations in the corpus

• A Few Prolific Liars (2015, methodology): “Serota et al. (2010) reported that the frequency distribution of lies (excluding those reporting no lies) fit a power function, a long tail curve with high frequencies for low values and a few responses for very high values.”
• Truth-Default Theory (TDT) (2014, background): “Serota et al. (2010) reported three studies consistent with Propositions 1 and 2.”
• People Lie for a Reason: Three Experiments Documenting the Principle of Veracity (2010, background): “Despite widespread social and moral prohibitions against deception, it is well documented that deception is an everyday occurrence in interaction (DePaulo, Kashy, Kirkendol, Wyer, & Epstein, 1996 ; Serota, Levine, & Boster, 2010 ; Turner, Edgley, & Olmstead, 1975 ).”
• Lie Detection from Multiple Cues: A Meta‐analysis (2014, background): “…the prevalence of deception in everyday life, research fi ndings consistently demonstrate that lies occur on a daily basis (Cole, 2001; DePaulo & Kashy, 1998; DePaulo, Kashy, Kirkendol, Wyer, & Epstein, 1996; Jensen, Arnett, Feldman, & Cauffman, 2004; but see Serota, Levine, & Boster, 2010).”
• Deception as a Derived Function of Language (2016, background): “Studies of human social behavior have further shown that deception is a relatively infrequent occurrence in everyday adult social interactions (Hancock et al., 2004; Serota et al., 2010).”
• Estimating the prevalence of deception in online review communities (2012, background): “[17] conducted a large scale representative survey of Americans asking participants how often they lied in the last 24 hours.”
• Being Honest About Dishonesty: Correlating Self‐Reports and Actual Lying (2014, methodology): “A Dutch translation of the questionnaire used by Serota et al. (2010) was used.”