Being honest about dishonesty: Correlating self-reports and actual lying

Human Communication Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 54-72

  Halevy, Rony ^a   Shalvi, Shaul ^b   Verschuere, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 84889561457     PISSN: 03603989     EISSN: 14682958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hcre.12019     Document Type: Article

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