• Truth, Politics and Self-Deception
  Bernard Williams

• Professional Liars
  Alan Ryan

• The Shadow of a Lie: Poetry, Lying and the Truth of Fictions
  John Hollander

• Sex, Lies and Tall Tales
  Wendy Doniger

• Holding Up the Mirror: Deception as Revelation in the Theater
  Thomas R. Whitaker

• On Making a Virtue of the Telling of Lies: Deception as a Marker of Children's Developing Conceptions of Mental Life
  Michael J. Chandler and Jamie Afifi

• Babies' Cries: Who's Listening? Who's Being Fooled?
  Nicholas S. Thompson, Carohn Olson and Brian Dessureau

• On the Psychology of Self-Deception
  David Shapiro

• Why Don't We Catch Liars?
  Paul Ekman

• The Psychology of Human Deception
  Robert W. Mitchell

• The Historical Significance of Lying and Dissimulation
  Perez Zagorin

• Some Questions About Truthfulness and Lying
  Mary Mothersill

• My Grandfather's Walking Stick, Or The Pink Lie
  Lore Segal

Jamie Afifi is a graduate student in psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Michael J. Chandler is professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. His recent writing includes "Shifting to an Interpretive Theory of Mind" in The Age of Reason and Responsibility(1996).

Brian Dessureau is a graduate student in psychology at Clark University.

Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Sexual Masquerades (forthcoming).

Paul Ekman is professor of psychology at the University of California Medical School, San Francisco. He is co-editor of The Nature of Emotion (1994) and author of Telling Lies (1992).

John Hollander is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His most recent book is The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art (1995).

Robert W. Mitchell is associate professor of psychology at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of "Animals as Liars: The Human Face of Nonhuman Duplicity" in Lying and Deception in Everyday Life (1993).

Mary Mothersill is professor of philosophy emerita at Barnard College. Her recent writing includes "The Moral Dilemmas Debate" in Moral Dilemmas and Ethical Theory (1996).

Carolyn Olson is a graduate student in psychology at Clark University.

Alan Ryan is Warden at New College, Oxford University. His most recent book is John Dewey (1995).

Lore Segal is professor of English at Ohio State University. Her works include Her First American (1985) and Tell Me a Mitzi (1982).

David Shapiro is professor of psychology on the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. His publications include Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character (1989).

Nicholas S. Thompson is professor of ethology and psychology at Clark University. He is the author of Natural Design in the Behavior of Animals & Humans (forthcoming).

Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Making Sense of Humanity (1995).

Thomas R. Whitaker is Hilles Professor Emeritus of English and Theater at Yale University. He is the author of Fields of Play in Modern Drama (1977).

Perez Zagorin is a Fellow of the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Milton: Aristocrat and Rebel (1992).