The impact of lie to me on viewers' actual ability to detect deception

Communication Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 847-856

  Levine, Timothy R ^a   Serota, Kim B ^a   Shulman, Hillary C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

lie detection; lying; media effects; outcome expectations; truth bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649914899     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650210362686     Document Type: Article

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