ABSTRACT
To address the issue of sex differences and encoding directly, the people revisited three of our recent deception experiments to determine whether men and women might differ systematically in the ways they produce deception. Although the paucity of sex differences in the literature on detection might stem from the fact that few studies have examined sex differences, the lack of profound sex differences in those studies argues against devoting a lot of energy to searching for them. This review of the research on sex differences and similarities reported in the deception and detection literature is relatively sparse considering the magnitude of research available on encoding and decoding deceptive and truthful messages. It appears either that few researchers looking at deception have considered sex differences or they have failed to find such differences and their non-significant findings have been relegated to the file drawer.
