Lying in Everyday Situations Scale (LiES)
Psychology1 sample item
About this scale
Pretty much all people lie at least occasionally and for different reasons. Obviously, this is of great interest. Hart and colleagues (2019) list the following possible reasons:
Sample item(s)
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Notes
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Source & citation
Christian L. Hart, Jelisa M. Jones, John A. Terrizzi, Drew A. Curtis. (2019). Development of the Lying in Everyday Situations Scale. The American Journal of Psychology, 132 (3) , 343-352. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.132.3.0343 . Download for free | Littrell, S., Risko, E.F. and Fugelsang, J.A. (2021), The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties. Br. J. Soc. Psychol., 60: 248-270 e12379. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12379 | The full scale and data of the Littrell and colleagues study which contains data on the LiES can be downloaded from the papers' OSF page .
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.132.3.0343
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https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12379
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