ABSTRACT
Since the 1980s, empirical study of deception has become quite popular. Many of the questions that have captured the attention of researchers pertain to people’s skill at deception detection: How do people go about detecting deception? Are they good at it? Why or why not? Are some detectors better than others? Interest in these questions, as with many questions about nonverbal behavior, stretches beyond disciplinary boundaries. The work is relevant to topics in fields such as sociology, anthropology, communication, clinical psychology, law enforcement, and political science.
