Lying and Deception - A Reading List

Ariely, Dan. The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.

Bagnoli, Carla "Self-deception: a constructivist account", in HumanaMente 20:93-116 (2012).

Barnes, Annette. Seeing through Self-Deception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 1997.

Barnes, J.A. A Pack of Lies: Toward a Sociology of Lying. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bok, Sissela. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

Bologna, Jack. Corporate Fraud: The Basics of Prevention and Detection. Boston: Butterworth Publishers, 1984.

Carson, Thomas L. "The Definition of Lying," Nous 40:2 (2006) 284-306.

Carson, Thomas L. Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Conklin, John E. Art Crime. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994.

Denery, Dallas G. The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

DeWeese-Boyd, Ian. "Self-Deception," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2012.

Ekman, Paul. Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Ford, Charles V. Lies! Lies! Lies! The Psychology of Deceit. Washington, D.C. American Psychiatric Press, 1996.

Kirsch, Julie. "Ethics and Self-Deception," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007.

Knapp, M.L. (2008).  Lying and deception in human interaction.  Boston:  Pearson Education/Penguin Academics.

Lewis, Michael and Saarni, Carolyn, eds. Lying and Deception in Everyday Life. New York: The Guilford Press, 1993.

Mahon, James E. "Two Definitions of Lying," International Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2008), 211-230.

Mahon, James E. "The Definition of Lying and Deception," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008).

Mahon, James E. "A Definition of Deceiving," International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (2007), 181-194.

McLaughlin, Brian P. and Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg, eds. Perspectives on Self-Deception. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Mele, Alfred. Self-Deception Unmasked. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Michaelson, Eliot, and Stokke, Andreas, editors, Lying: Language, Knowledge, Ethics, and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Nettler, Gwynn. Lying, Cheating, Stealing. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Company, 1982.

Nyberg, David. The Varnished Truth: Truth Telling and Deceiving in Ordinary Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Meyer, Pamela. Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2010.

Rich, Adrienne. "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying" (1975), in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 1979.

Saul, Jennifer Mather. Lying, Misleading, and What is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Shiffrin, Seana Valentine. Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Stokke, Andreas. Lying and Insincerity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Trivers, Robert. The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Vrij, Aldert. Detecting Lies and Deceit. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2000.

Walters, Stan B. The Truth about Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself from Deception. Naperville: Source Books, Inc., 2000.