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Timothy R. Levine is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main areas of study in their work include deception detection and forensic psychology, psychopathy and forensic psychiatry, misinformation and its impacts, adversarial robustness in machine learning, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, personality traits, and social and intergroup psychology.

Levine has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Human Communication Research
  • Communication Studies
  • Communication Research Reports
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • PLoS ONE

Recent papers by Levine include:

  • "Unpacking variation in lie prevalence: Prolific liars, bad lie days, or both?" (2021) in Communication Monographs
  • "The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments" (2021) in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Truth-default theory and the psychology of lying and deception detection" (2022) in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "It's the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses" (2020) in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "A few prolific liars in Japan: Replication and the effects of Dark Triad personality traits" (2021) in PLoS ONE

Levine's frequent co-authors include:

  • Kim B. Serota
  • David M. Markowitz
  • Tony Docan-Morgan
  • Alivia Moore
  • Yasuhiro Daiku

Best Publications

  • Eta Squared, Partial Eta Squared, and Misreporting of Effect Size in Communication Research

    Timothy R. Levine;Craig R. Hullett

  • Truth-Default Theory (TDT) A Theory of Human Deception and Deception Detection

    Timothy R. Levine

  • Accuracy in detecting truths and lies: Documenting the “veracity effect”

    Timothy R. Levine;Hee Sun Park;Steven A. McCornack

  • The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported Lies

    Kim B. Serota;Timothy R. Levine;Franklin J. Boster

  • Negotiating a Friends with Benefits Relationship

    Melissa A. Bisson;Timothy R. Levine

  • Self‐Construal Scales Lack Validity

    Timothy R. Levine;Mary Jiang Bresnahan;Hee Sun Park;Maria Knight Lapinski

  • How people really detect lies

    Hee Sun Park;Timothy R. Levine;Steven A. McCornack;Kelly Morrison

  • The Unidimensional Relationship Closeness Scale (URCS): reliability and validity evidence for a new measure of relationship closeness.

    Jayson L. Dibble;Timothy R. Levine;Hee Sun Park

  • Measuring trait communication apprehension: A test of rival measurement models of the PRCA‐24

    Timothy R. Levine;James C. Mccroskey

  • When lies are uncovered: Emotional and relational outcomes of discovered deception

    Steven A. McCornack;Timothy R. Levine

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Scale Validation in Communication Research

    Timothy R. Levine

  • When lovers become leery: The relationship between suspicion and accuracy in detecting deception

    Steven A. McCornack;Timothy R. Levine

  • The Effects of Argument Quality and Involvement Type on Attitude Formation and Attitude Change: A Test of Dual-Process and Social Judgment Predictions

    Hee Sun Park;Timothy R. Levine;Catherine Y. Kingsley Westerman;Tierney Orfgen

  • Content in Context Improves Deception Detection Accuracy

    J. Pete Blair;Timothy R. Levine;Allison S. Shaw

  • Linking Love and Lies: A Formal Test of the Mccornack and Parks Model of Deception Detection

    Timothy R. Levine;Steven A. McCornack

  • A Critical Assessment of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing in Quantitative Communication Research

    Timothy R. Levine;René Weber;Craig Hullett;Hee Sun Park

  • Sample sizes and effect sizes are negatively correlated in meta-analyses: evidence and implications of a publication bias against nonsignificant findings

    Timothy R. Levine;Kelli J. Asada;Chris Carpenter

  • A Few Prolific Liars: Variation in the Prevalence of Lying

    Kim B. Serota;Timothy R. Levine

  • To stay or to leave? the role of attachment styles in communication patterns and potential termination of romantic relationships following discovery of deception

    Su Ahn Jang;Sandi W. Smith;Timothy R. Levine

  • The theory of reasoned action and self‐construal: Evidence from three cultures

    Hee Sun Park;Timothy R. Levine

  • Sender Demeanor: Individual Differences in Sender Believability Have a Powerful Impact on Deception Detection Judgments

    Timothy R. Levine;Kim B. Serota;Kim B. Serota;Hillary Shulman;David D. Clare

Frequent Co-Authors

Elaine Hatfield
Elaine Hatfield University of Hawaii at Manoa
Mike Allen
Mike Allen University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Marc S. Wilson
Marc S. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington
James C. McCroskey
James C. McCroskey West Virginia University
David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen
David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen Michigan State University
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel J. O'Keefe
Daniel J. O'Keefe Northwestern University
Judee K. Burgoon
Judee K. Burgoon University of Arizona
Ross Buck
Ross Buck University of Connecticut
Maria Hartwig
Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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