Home Runs and Humbugs: Comment on Bond and DePaulo (2008)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-497

  O'Sullivan, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

deception accuracy; expertise; individual differences; lie detection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMOR; INDIVIDUALITY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RECUMBENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

DECEPTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 47249146948     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.134.4.493     Document Type: Article

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