Franklin J. Boster

Who they are

The work of Franklin J. Boster reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Few Prolific Liars.

Key papers

Serota, K. B., Levine, T. R., & Boster, F. J. (2010). The prevalence of lying in America: Three studies of self-reported lies. Human Communication Research, 36(1), 2-25. What it reports: Three studies of self-reported lies. In a national survey of about 1,000 adults the average was 1.65 lies in a day, most people reported none, and a small share of people told a large share of all the lies reported; the same skew appeared in a student sample and in earlier data.

Key ideas

Few Prolific Liars: Most lies are told by a small number of people who lie often, while most people lie rarely.

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