Bella Depaulo Ph D

When the Truth Hurts: Lying to Be Kind Bella Depaulo Ph D

Publisher Marketing: Most people value honesty. They want to tell the truth. They also value kindness. Sometimes, though, honesty and kindness collide. That happens when telling the truth would be hurtful, but being kind involves telling a lie. How do people negotiate this clash of noble intentions? When the Truth Hurts: Lying to Be Kind is a brief book with two parts. Part 1 is adapted from this chapter: DePaulo, Bella M., Morris, Wendy L., & Sternglanz, R. Weylin (2009). When the truth hurts: Deception in the name of kindness. In Anita L. Vangelisti (Ed.), Feeling hurt in close relationships (pp. 167-190). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Part 2, questions that various reporters have asked Professor DePaulo over the years are collected and answered. Professor Bella DePaulo is an award-winning social scientist and Harvard Ph. D. who has been studying the psychology of deceiving and detecting deceit for decades. She is one of the most renowned scholars in the field. Dr. DePaulo's previous books on deception include Behind the Door of Deceit, The Hows and Whys of Lies, The Lies We Tell and the Clues We Miss, Is Anyone Really Good at Detecting Lies (with Charles F. Bond, Jr.), and The Psychology of Dexter. Bella DePaulo is also an expert on single life and has published Singled Out, Single with Attitude, and Singlism. Contributor Bio:  Depaulo Ph D, Bella Bella DePaulo (Ph. D., Harvard University) writes myth-busting, consciousness-raising, totally unapologetic books on single life. The Atlantic magazine has described her as "America's foremost thinker and writer on the single experience." Dr. DePaulo's books get much attention because of her expertise, her high profile in the media, and her years of writing for popular audiences. Her work has been described in the most influential newspapers, including New York Times (many times), the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and in widely-read magazines such as the New Yorker, Time, AARP Magazine, Newsweek / The Daily Beast, the Week, the Economist, More, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Readers' Digest, Prevention, the Nation, Business Week, US News & World Report, Realtor Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Atlantic. Bella DePaulo has been writing the "Living Single" blog for Psychology Today since 2008. She also blogs for PsychCentral and has contributed to the Huffington Post. She has appeared many times on radio and television, including, for example, NPR, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Anderson Cooper 360. Professor DePaulo, who is also an expert on the psychology of deceiving and detecting deceit, has lectured nationally and internationally. She has given workshops and has addressed criminal attorneys, judges, polygraphers, members of the national intelligence community (such as the CIA and the FBI), physicists, marketing professionals, high school teachers, and medical and mental health practitioners. She has been invited to speak at think tanks, government agencies, political meetings, singles advocacy groups, literary conferences, book clubs, book festivals, women's centers, and many universities. Bella DePaulo is the winner of the Excellence in Research Award, bestowed by the American Association for Single People. The author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including more than a dozen books, she has also won two prestigious academic awards, the Research Scientist Development Award and the James McKeen Cattell Award. Professor DePaulo has served in leadership positions in professional organizations and on the editorial boards of many journals. She is currently a Project Scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Visit Dr. DePaulo's website at www. BellaDePaulo.com.