Tony Docan-Morgan is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA. His teaching and research span the topics of public communication, interpersonal relationships, and ethics and deception.

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• 1.The Study of Lying and Deception: Historical Perspectives.- 2.Defining Deception, Truth, and Related Concepts.- 3.Moral Dimensions of Deception.- 4.A Review of Meta-Analyses about Deception Detection.- 5.Cultural Perspectives on Lying and Deception.- 6.Implications of Some “Obvious Truths” for Building Theories of Deceptive Message Formulation and Production.- 7.Discursive Dimensions of Deceptive Communication: A Framework for Practical Analysis.- 8.True and False Intentions.- 9.The Reciprocal Nature of Lying and Memory:  Memory Confabulation and Diagnostic Cues to Deception.- 10.Manipulating Trust: Exploiting Communication Mechanisms and Authenticity Cues to Deceive.- 11.Affiliative and Exploitive Motives to Deception and Their Differential and Joint Consequences.- 12.Correlates of Self-Assessed Abilities to Tell Lies and Truths: A Review.- 13.Effects of Deception on the Deceiver.- 14.Inauthenticity as a Form of Deceptive Communication.- 15.Understanding Lie Detection Biases with ALIED: A Boundedly Rational Approach.- 16.Unchallenged Deceptions in Social and Professional Relationships.- 17.Managing Face in the Midst of Deception: A Cross-Cultural Examination.- 18.An Overview of Detecting Deceptive Behavior.- 19.Promising New Techniques in Lie Detection.- 20.Individual Differences & Deception Detection Abilities.- 21.Multitasking, Cognitive Load, and Deception.- 22.Nonverbal Cues to Deception.- 23.The Many Faces of Trustworthiness: Accuracy and Inaccuracy in Predicting Deception from Facial Appearance.- 24.Comparing Perceptual and Automated Vision-Based Methods for Lie Detection in Younger Children.- 25.Deception and Language: The Contextual Organization of Language and Deception (COLD) Framework.- 26.Verifiability Approach: Applications in Different Judgmental Settings.- 27.“At the End of the Day,When All is Said and Done, Honesty is the Best Policy”: An Investigation Into the Potential Role of Formulaic Sequences as a Marker of Deception.- 28.Verbal Cues Fostering Perceptions of Credibility and Truth/Lie Detection,- 29.Detecting Deceptive Intentions: Possibilities for Large-Scale Applications.- 30.Indirect and Implicit Deception Detection: Existing Findings and Emerging Evidence.- 31.The Concealed Information Test: Past, Present, and Future.- 32.Deterring Deception: Theory and New Directions.- 33.Deceptive Affection in Relationships.- 34.Deceiving for and During Sex.- 35.Deception at a Distance: Long-Distance Deception and Romantic Relationships.- 36.Life as Means of Deception within Art and Truth within Psyche: A Comprehensive Analysis of Romantic Deception Portrayals in Art and Psychology.- 37.“She is my roommate:” Why and How Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals Deceive Friends about Their Sexual Orientation.- 38.Linguistic Aspects of Cross-Cultural Deceptive Communication in Polish and English.- 39.“Passing” and the Politics of Deception: Transgender Bodies, Cisgender Aesthetics, and the Policing of Inconspicuous Marginal Identities.- 40.Deception in Group Contexts.- 41.Organizational Deception: Lies at Work.- 42.What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You, Can It? Deception in Health Contexts.- 43.Is it Always Better to Tell the Whole Truth? Health Care Professionals and Medical “Bad News”.- 44.An Examining of Student Cheating: A Dramaturgical Perspective of Deception and Self-Deception.- 45.The History, Present, and Future of Police Deception during Interrogation.- 46.Deception and the Art and Science of Criminal Interrogation.- 47.Disbelief Repeats as Deception Tagging: Conversational Strategies for Labeling Lies in Interrogations.- 48.Interrogation, Torture, and Deception.- 49.Deception Detection in Courtrooms: Hazards and Challenges for Scholars and Professionals.- 50.Deception Production, Detection, and Beliefs in Online Environments.- 51.Playful Masquerade or Malicious Fraud? Deception in Anonymous Online Communication.- 52.“You have Won €1,000,000”: Analyzing the Discourse Structures of Deceptive Emails.- 53.Visual Deception: From Camo to Cameron.- 54.Ethics of Deception in Mass Communication.- 55.Propaganda, Social Media, and Fake News.- 56.Marketing Deception: An Effects-based Paradigm.- 57.Audiences in the Dark: Deception in Pharmaceutical Advertising through Verbal-Visual Mismatches.- 58.Audience Acceptance of Deceptive News Content.- 59.Propaganda, Politics and Deception.- 60.Disclosing Deception and No One Cares? Fact-Checking and Political Trust During Election Campaigns.- 61.Reality Monitoring in Politics: Language of Lies in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race.