Publications

Publication details [#60342]

Levine, Timothy R. and Kim B. Serota. 2015. A Few Prolific Liars. Variation in the Prevalence of Lying. A Few Prolific Liars. Variation in the Prevalence of Lying. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (2) : 138–157.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative effect | communicative style | deceiving | lying | truthfulness

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper outlines a statistical method for differentiating (the small amount of) prolific liars from casual liars, and asserts that the former, according to a test on prolific liar conduct in the U.K., tell more little white lies than great lies.