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Lie Detection and the Social Functions of Deception

PWR 2SGA - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Streit, S.
Last Updated: 15-Apr-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 2SGA: Lie Detection and the Social Functions of Deception. Course topics include: the psychology and physiology of lying? the social function of lying? Body Language of Lying: gestures, facial expressions, voice, or word choices; ethical, philosophical, and rhetorical questions regarding the role of deception in human communication.

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Bibliographic Management

Background/reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The international encyclopedia of communication / edited by Wolfgang Donsbach.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Green Library » Information Center » P87.5 .I58 2008 V.1
Embodied interaction : language and body in the material world / edited by Jürgen Streeck, Charles Goodwin and Curtis LeBaron.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Green Library » Stacks » P40 .E43 2011
Gesture : visible action as utterance / Adam Kendon.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Green Library » Stacks » P117 .K46 2004
IBSS extra [electronic resource] : the international bibliography of the social sciences.
Norwood, MA : SilverPlatter Information,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Nonverbal behavior in interpersonal relations / Virginia Peck Richmond, James C. McCroskey, and Mark Hickson, III.
6th ed. Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2008.
Green Library » Stacks » BF637 .N66 R53 2008

Online Reference Searches: "Deception"

Find Search Terms, Topic ideas, and Expert Scholars in a field of Research Using a Reference Database. Here's an example:

  • "deception" using Gale Virtual Reference Library (note you can see the Subject Area Choices by choose to "limit by" Subject)
  • "deception" using Blackwell Reference Online (note you can choose to limit by any of the choices on the left side of the page)

Searchworks Subject term: Rhetoric--Deception

A sample search and resulting items for the subject Rhetoric/subtopic Deception.  Look at other books with similar call numbers using the Browse by Call Number feature for each selected title.

› See all 5 results
  1. Mass deception : moral panic and the U.S. war on Iraq

    Scott A. Bonn. 2010

  2. The fifteen biggest lies in politics

    Major Garrett and Timothy J. Penny. 1998

  3. The politics of misinformation

    Murray Edelman. 2001

  4. Going to war : how misinformation, disinformation, and arrogance led America into Iraq

    Russ Hoyle. 2008

  5. Deception and democracy in classical Athens

    Jon Hesk. 2000

Suggested Databases for study of Gesture and Deception

Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles on Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and Communication and Media perspectives on Deception and Lie Detection

Communication studies [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Communication & mass media complete [electronic resource].
[Ipswich, MA] : EBSCO Pub., c2004-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Sociology [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
Ethnographic video online [electronic resource].
[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, c2010-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
PsycINFO [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
The Philosopher's index.
Cumulative ed. Bowling Green, Ohio, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green University.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Z7127 .P4 V.39 NO.4 2005
Political science [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, MD : CSA ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource

Sample Searches in Databases

Search Academic Search Premier for Deception in Medicine