title: Behind the Door of Deceit: Understanding the Biggest Liars in Our Lives
author: Bella DePaulo Ph.D.
description: Bella DePaulo (PhD, Harvard) has been studying lying in everyday life for decades. She is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, many of them on the topic of deception, and is one of the foremost academic experts in the field. DePaulo's work on deception has been described in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and many other major national and international newspapers. It has also been reported in magazines such as Time, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Readers' Digest, and U.S. News and World Report. Dr. DePaulo has appeared as an expert on deception on NPR, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, and other shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, PBS, the BBC, and the Discovery Channel. She has also lectured nationally and internationally. She has addressed criminal attorneys, physicists, judges, and mental health practitioners. Bella DePaulo is also an expert on the place of people who are single in society and in science. She is the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After (St. Martin's Press).
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  # Liar
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Fiona Cole
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Fiona Cole
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and
  incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a
  fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, actual
  events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Playlist](part0004.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Foreword](part0005.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1\. [Olivia](part0006.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2\. [Kent](part0007.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  3\. [Olivia](part0