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Pamela Meyer The Nation's Best Known Expert on Deception-- known for her blockbuster TED talk, “How to Spot a Liar,”

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  • Four Ways to Build a Culture of Honesty and Avoid ‘Productivity Paranoia

    MIT Sloan Management Review: A lack of trust between colleagues and managers in remote and hybrid environments can damage workplace culture and morale

  • What to Do If You Catch Your Boss in a Lie

    Harvard Business Review: Nothing is more infuriating and hurtful than catching your boss in a lie. There are two ways to handle deceit from above: one is reactively, and the other proactively.

  • Three Lessons on Fighting Misinformation

    Newsweek Editorial: Just as investigators look for motive, means, and opportunity when probing crimes, some researchers who look for ways to stop unethical behavior sometimes explore these same factors. To cut back on the proliferation of lies, we need to reduce all three of these driving forces.

  • Harvard-educated deception expert: 4 red flags can show when people like Sam Bankman-Fried are lying

    CNBC: Were they simply masterful deceivers? Or, were there signs that might have pointed toward their deceptions and exaggerations sooner? The answer is the latter, says Pamela Meyer, a Harvard-educated deception expert who is a certified fraud examiner and the author of the book “Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception.”

  • How to spot the liars among us without losing all trust

    Fast Company: George Santos's fabricated résumé is a stark reminder that you're probably working with a liar, says Pamela Meyer, a renowned expert on deception. Here's how to stay vigilant.

  • How Savvy Investors Can Avoid Major Losses Due to Lies

    Nasdaq: Every time the public learns about another serial liar, I get a new influx of calls from executives wanting to know how they can avoid being taken in by people like this. It happens every time Elizabeth Holmes pops up in the news, for example. When it comes to investors in the stock market, I tell them that they need to be on alert as much as anyone else. Yes, it's helpful to know that the SEC can be on the lookout. But liars are clever and often go unnoticed until it's too late.

  • Is Lying Trump's strategy?

    New York Times: The deception was so brazen, so demonstrably disprovable, that it felt like a milestone in campaign history: After relentlessly promoting the lie that Barack Obama was born outside the United States, Donald J. Trump looked into the cameras and declared that he had instead debunked that insidious myth. Which raises a question: Is dishonesty this audacious and deliberate official campaign strategy for Mr. Trump? In the latest episode of The Run-Up, we posed that question..