Media contact: Shannon Thomason, thomason@uab.edu
Timothy Levine, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Studies
Areas of expertise:
- Deception
- Lying
- Persuasion
- Interpersonal communication
Levine has been researching deception and deception detection for more than 20 years.
In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, he conducts training and does consulting for attorneys, law enforcement, and security/intelligence professionals and others on the topics of deception detection, interpersonal communication skills, credibility enhancement, and persuasion and influence.
Media appearances:
- WIth 'Talking to Strangers,' Malcolm Gladwell goes dark, The New York Times
- Why we lie: The science behind our deceptive ways, National Geographic
- Science of political deception, CNN Money
- Will honest and integrity be on trial in 2019, Deseret News
- You really can fool some of the people, all of the time, The Economist