Overview

My research program at Cornell has focused on examining social interactions mediated by information and communication technology, with a particular emphasis on how people produce and understand language in these contexts. In general, my theoretical approach draws on collaborative action-oriented models of communication, in particular Herb Clark's model of language use, and self-presentational frameworks that describe interpersonal motivations. My research has focused on two types of language phenomenon, verbal irony and deception, and on a number of cognitive and social psychological factors affected by online communication, such as impression formation and management, group processes, and individual differences (e.g., cognitive flexibility, personality traits, etc). Within each of these areas my research tends to be guided by more specific, phenomena-related theory (e.g., for irony, the allusional pretense model, for deception, the interpersonal deception theory, for impression formation the Hyperpersonal model, etc.).

Research Focus

My research group is interested in social interactions mediated by information and communication technology, with an emphasis on how people produce and understand language in these contexts. Our research has focused on two types of language, verbal irony and deception, and on a number of cognitive and social psychological factors affected by online communication.

Outreach and Extension Focus

I believe that communicating research to the public is an important service, especially when that research has relevance to everyday lives (e.g., deception and technology). Since 2004 I have given presentations about my research to Cornell Alumni Associations. I value the opportunity to connect with Cornell Alumni, who always are excited to hear about research and about activities in the Communication Department, in the new Information Science Program, and in CALS.

Teaching Focus

In general, my instructional techniques tend to be the same whether I am teaching in small seminar or a larger lecture course. I would best describe them as Socratic in the sense that I encourage students to process the course material in an ongoing interactive manner. I provide content and ask questions that guide the student through the material with the goal of establishing interaction between speaker and listeners. I encourage critical analytic thinking about ideas and evidence across any area of content being considered in the class. Students are asked to be skeptical and think about the logic and procedures behind scientific information. They are expected to evaluate evidence, and articulate their thoughts both orally and in writing. Although this can sometimes be difficult in a large lecture class, I find that it is possible. I believe these basic skills will serve students beyond the classroom, and ensure that they are more effective communicators and more critical consumers of information in their everyday lives. In smaller classes, I structure the course so that students engage in a research project where they learn how to ask a research question, and how to conduct a study to address that question.

Additional Links

• Website for the Social Media Lab
• Link to CALS Research and Impact
• Link to Research & Expertise Across Cornell

Selected Publications

Journal Publications

• Jiang, L. C., Bazarova, N., & Hancock, J. T. (2013). From perception to behavior: Disclosure reciprocity and the intensification of intimacy in computer-mediated communication. Communication Research. 40:125-143.
• Hancock, J. T., Woodworth, M., & Porter, S. (2013). Hungry Like the Wolf: A Word Pattern Analysis of the Language of Psychopaths. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 18:102-114.
• Toma, C., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). What lies beneath: The linguistic traces of deception in online dating profiles.. Journal of Communication. 62:78-97.
• Ellison, N., Hancock, J. T., & Toma, C. (2012). Profile as Promise: A Framework for Conceptualizing the Veracity of Online Dating Profiles. New Media and Society. 14:42-59.
• Guillory, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). The Effect of Linkedin on Deception in Resumes.. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. 15:135-140.
• Birnholtz, J. P., Dixon, G., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). Distance, ambiguity and appropriation: Structures affording impression management in a collocated organization.. Computers in Human Behavior. 28:1028-1035.
• Bazarova, N., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). Attributions After a Group Failure: Do They Matter? . Communication Research. 39:499-522.
• Birnholtz, J. P., Hancock, J. T., Smith, M., & Reynolds, L. (2012). Understanding unavailability in a world of constant connection.. Interactions. 19:32-35.
• Jiang, L. C., Bazarova, N., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). The Disclosure–Intimacy Link in Computer-Mediated Communication: An Attributional Extension of the Hyperpersonal Model . Human Communication Research. 37:58-77.
• Gonzales, A. A., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. 14:79-83.
• Gonzales, A., Hancock, J. T., & Pennebaker, J. (2010). Language Style Matching as a Predictor of Social Dynamics in Small Groups. Communication Research. 37:3-19.
• Toma, C., & Hancock, J. T. (2010). Looks and Lies: The Role of Physical Attractiveness in Online Dating Self-Presentation and Deception. Communication Research. 37:335-351.
• Leshed, G., Cosley, D., Hancock, J. T., & Gay, G. K. (2010). Visualizing language use in team conversations: designing through theory, experiments, and iterations. 4567-4582.
• Hancock, J. T., Beaver, D. I., Chung, C. K., Frazee, J., Pennebaker, K. W., Graesser, A., & Cai, Z. (2010). Social Language Processing: A Framework for Analyzing the Communication of Terrorists and Authoritarian Regimes. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. 2:108-132.
• Hancock, J. T., Woodworth, M., & Goorha, S. (2010). See no evil: The effect of communication medium and motivation on deception detection. Group Decision and Negotiation. 19:327-343.
• Hancock, J. T., Kenny, D. A., Snook, A., & Boucher, E. M. (2010). Interpersonal sensitivity, status, and stereotype accuracy: Was Snodgrass right after all? . Psychological Science. 21:1735-1739.
• Bazarova, N., Hancock, J. T., (2010). From dispositions to motives: New perspectives on attributions and their implications for communication.. 63-92.
• Bazarova, N., & Hancock, J. T. (2010). From dispositional attributions to behavior motives: The folk-conceptual theory and implications for communication. Communication Yearbook. 34:63-92.
• Leshed, G., Perez, D., Hancock, J. T., Cosley, D., Birnholtz, J. P., Lee, S., McLeod, P. L., & Gay, G. K. (2009). Visualizing real-time language-based feedback on teamwork behavior in computer-mediated groups. 537-546.
• Pena, J., Hancock, J. T., & Merola, N. (2009). The priming effects of avatars in virtual settings. Communication Research. 36:838-856.
• Wang, Z., Walther, J. B., & Hancock, J. T. (2009). Social identification and interpersonal communication in computer-mediated communication: What you do versus who you are in virtual groups. Human Communication Research. 35:59-85.
• Hancock, J. T., & Toma, C. (2009). Putting Your Best Face Forward: The Accuracy of Online Dating Photographs. Journal of Communication. 59:367-386.
• Hancock, J. T., Curry, L., Goorha, S., & Woodworth, M. (2008). On lying and being lied to: A linguistic analysis of deception. Discourse Processes. 45:1-23.
• Toma, C., Hancock, J. T., & Ellison, N. (2008). Separating Fact from Fiction: An Examination of Deceptive Self-Presentation in Online Dating Profiles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 34:1023-1036.
• Boucher, E., Hancock, J. T., & Dunham, P. J. (2008). Interpersonal Sensitivity in Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Conversations. Media Psychology. 11:235-258.
• Gonzales, A., & Hancock, J. T. (2008). Identity Shift in Computer-Mediated Environments. Media Psychology. Media Psychology. 11:167-185.
• Stefanone, M., Hancock, J. T., Gay, G. K., Davidson, B. D., & Ingraffea, T. (2008). Personality characteristics and media preferences of central actors in emergent social networks. Journal of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
• Pena, J., Walther, J. B., & Hancock, J. T. (2007). Effects of Geographic Distribution on Dominance Perceptions in Computer-Mediated Groups. Communication Research. 34:313-331.
• Matthews, J., Hancock, J. T., & Dunham, P. J. (2006). The role of politeness and humor in the asymmetry of affect in verbal irony. Discourse Processes. 41:3-24.
• Nastri, J., Pena, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). The Construction of Away Messages: A Speech Act Analysis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 11:1025-1045.
• Abbass, A. A., Hancock, J. T., Henderson, J., & Kisely, S. (2006). Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapies for Common Mental Disorders. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 4:1-47.
• Pena, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). An analysis of instrumental and socio-emotional content in online multi-player videogames. Communication Research. 33:92-109.
• Walther, J., Gay, G. K., & Hancock, J. T. (2005). How do communication and technology researchers study the Internet. Journal of Communication. 55:632-657.
• Hancock, J. T., (2004). Verbal irony use in computer-mediated and face-to-face conversations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 23:447-463.
• Hancock, J. T., & Dunham, P. J. (2001). Language use in computer-mediated communication: The role of coordination devices. Discourse Processes. 31:91-110.
• Hancock, J. T., & Dunham, P. J. (2001). Impression Formation in Computer-Mediated Communication Revisited: An Analysis of the Breadth and Intensity of Impressions. Communication Research. 28:325-347.
• Hancock, J. T., Purdy, K., & Dunham, P. J. (2000). Children’s comprehension of critical and complimentary forms of verbal irony. Journal of Cognition and Development. 1:227-248.

Book Chapters

• Hancock, J. T., & Gonzales, A. (2013). To Lie or Not To Lie Online: The Pragmatics of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication. Handbook of Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication. S. Herring, D. Stein and T. Virtanen (ed.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany
• Hancock, J. T., (2012). To Lie or Not To Lie Online: The Pragmatics of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication.. Handbook of Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication. S. Herring, D. Stein and T. Virtanen (ed.), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany
• Toma, C., & Hancock, J. T. (2009). Lying for Love in the Digital Age: Deception in Online Dating. p. 149-164 M. McGlone & M. Knapp (ed.), Taylor & Francis, New York, NY
• Hancock, J. T., (2009). Digital Deception: The Practice of Lying in the Digital Age. p. pp.109-120 Deception: Methods, Contexts and Consequences. B. Harrington (ed.), Stanford Press., Palo Alto, CA
• Hancock, J. T., (2007). Disclosure and Deception in Tomorrow’s Survey Interview: The Role of Information Technology. p. 179-194 The Interview Survey of the Future. M. Schober & F. Turner (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ
• Hancock, J. T., (2007). Digital deception: When, where and how people lie online. p. 287-301 Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. K. McKenna, T. Postmes, U. Reips & A.N. Joinson (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford UK
• Hancock, J. T., Purdy, J. T., & Dunham, P. J. (2007). Children’s comprehension of critical and complimentary forms of verbal irony. p. 425–446 Irony in language and thought: A cognitive science reader. R. W. Gibbs and H. L. Colston (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ
• Shapiro, M. A., Peña-Herborn, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). Realism,imagination, and narrative video games. p. 275-289 Playing video games: Motives, responses, and consequences. P. Vorderer & J. Bryant (ed.), Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Mahwah, NJ
• Shapiro, M. A., Pena-Hebron, J., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). Realism, imagination and videogames. p. 275-290 Playing Computer Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences. P. Vorderer and J. Bryant (ed.), Lawernce Earlbaum Associates, New York, NY

Conference Proceedings

• Liu, X., Tang, K., Hancock, J. T., Han, J., Song, M., Xu, R., & Manikonda, V. (2012). SocialCube: A text cube framework for analyzing social media data.. Proceedings of the ASE International Conference on Social Informatics (SocialInformatics2012)..
• Kim, S., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). It Won’t Happen to Me, Even if It’s Good: Asymmetries in Optimistic Bias Among Facebook Users. . Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association.
• Gokhman, S., Hancock, J. T., Prahbu, P., Ott, M., & Cardie., C. (2012). In search of a gold standard in studies of deception.. Proceedings of the European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL) Workshop on Deception Detection..
• Liu, X., Hancock, J. T., Zhang, G., Xu, R., Markowitz, D., & Bazarova, N. (2012). Exploring Linguistic Features for Deception Detection in Unstructured Text. Forty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS45).
• Ott, M., Cardie, C. T., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). Estimating the prevalence of deception in online review communities.. Proceedings of International World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW2012)..
• Hancock, J. T., Woodworth, M. T., Morrow, Jr, R. R., McGillivray, H., & Boochever, R. (2012). Assessing credibility through text: A preliminary analysis for identifying psychopathy.. Forty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS45)..
• Jiang, C., & Hancock, J. T. (2012). Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: The Effects of Geographic Separation and Interpersonal Media on Intimacy Processes.. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association. p55 p.
• Guillory, J., Spiegel, J., Drisdale, M., Weiss, B., Donner, W., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Upset now?: Emotion contagion in distributed groups. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). 745-748 p.
• Schwanda, V., Barron, K., Lien, J., Schoreer, G., Vernon, A., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Temporal patterns of cohesiveness in virtual groups. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011). 709-712 p.
• Getty, E., Cobb, J., Gabeler, M., Nelson, C., Weng, E., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). I said your name in an empty room: grieving and continuing bonds on Facebook. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). 997-1000 p.
• Ott, M., Cardie, C., Choi, Y., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Finding deceptive opinion spam by any stretch of the imagination. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics . 309-319 p.
• Reynolds, L., Gillette, S., Marder, J., Miles, Z., Vodenski, P., Weintraub, A., Birnholtz, J. P., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Contact Stratification and Deception: BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) versus SMS. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Hangzhou, China, March 19-23. 221-224 p.
• Hancock, J. T., (2011). A tale of two languages: strategic self-disclosure via language selection on facebook. Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. 387-390 p.
• Birnholtz, J. P., Guillory, J., Hancock, J. T., & Bazarova, N. (2010). “on my way”: Deceptive Texting and Interpersonal Awareness Narratives. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), ), February 6-10, Savannah, GA.
• Warkentin, D., Woodworth, M., Hancock, J. T., & Cormier, N. (2010). Warrants and Deception in Computer Mediated Communication.. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010.
• Leshed, G., Cosley, D., Hancock, J. T., & Gay, G. K. (2010). Visualizing Language Use in Team Conversations: Designing Through Theory, Experiments, and Iterations. Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. 4567-4582 p.
• Woodworth, M., Hancock, J. T., Agar, A., Cormier, N., & Carpenter, T. (2010). Suspicion in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: Preliminary Results. Proceedings, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
• Toma, C., & Hancock, J. T. (2010). Reading between the Lines: Linguistic Cues to Deception in Online Dating Profiles. Proceedings of the ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), .
• Leshed, G., Perez, D., Hancock, J. T., Cosley, D., Birnholtz, J. P., McLeod, P. L., & Gay, G. K. (2009). Visualizing Real-Time Language-Based Feedback on Teamwork Behavior in Computer-Mediated Groups. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 09). ACM Press, New York, NY. 537-546 p.
• Shami, N. S., Ehrlich, K., Gay, G., & Hancock, J. T. (2009). Making Sense of Strangers' Expertise from Signals in Digital Artifacts. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2009),
• Hancock, J. T., Birnholtz, J. P., Bazarova, N., Guillory, J., Perlin, J., & Amos, B. (2009). Butler lies: awareness, deception, and design. . Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), April 4-9, Boston, MA.
• Hancock, J. T., Birnholtz, J. P., Bazarova, N., Guillory, J., Perlin, J., & Amos, B. (2009). Butler Lies: Awareness, Deception and Design. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 09). ACM Press, New York, NY. 517-526 p.
• Hancock, J. T., Birnholtz, J., Bazarova, N., Guillory, J., Amos, B., & Perlin, J. (2009). Butler Lies: Awareness, Deception and Design. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009),
• Hancock, J. T., Gee, K., Ciacco, k., & Mae-Hwah Lin, J. (2008). I’m sad you’re sad: Emotional contagion in CMC. . Begole & McDonald (ed.), ACM, New York, NY. 295-298 p.
• Hancock, J. T., Toma, C., & Fenner, K. (2008). I know something you don't: the use of asymmetric personal information for interpersonal advantage. Begole & McDonald (ed.), ACM, New York, NY. 413-416 p.
• Hancock, J. T., Toma, C., & Ellison, N. (2007). The truth about lying in online dating profiles. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007).
• Leshed, G., Hancock, J. T., Cosley, D., McLeod, P. L., & Gay, G. K. (2007). Feedback for guiding reflection on teamwork practices. ACM GROUP 2007.
• Hancock, J. T., Landrigan, C., & Silver, C. (2007). Expressing emotion in text. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2007).
• Thro, A. M., Baenziger, P. S., Brummer, C., Carena, M., Coffman, W. R., Smith Einarson, M. E., Hancock, J. T., Navazio, J., Pollak, L., Smith, S., Stalker, T., Stuthman, D., Tracy, W. F., Waines, G., Wessel-Beaver, L., & Whiteaker, G. (2006). Plant breeding and variety development: A vital capacity for U.S. national goals. Proceedings of the 2006 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Research Triangle Park, NC.
• Boehner, K., & Hancock, J. T. (2006). Advancing ambiguity. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006). 103-107 p.
• Woodworth, M., Hancock, J. T., & Goorha, S. (2005). The motivational enhancement effect: Implications for our chosen modes of communication in the 21st century. Proceedings, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
• Hancock, J. T., Curry, L., Goorha, S., & Woodworth, M. (2005). An automated linguistic analysis of deceptive and truthful computer-mediated communication. Proceedings, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
• Hancock, J. T., (2004). LOL: Humor online. ACM Interactions. 57-58 p.
• Hancock, J. T., Curry, L., Goorha, S., & Woodworth, M. T. (2004). Lies in Conversation: An Examination of Deception Using Automated Linguistic Analysis. Proceedings, Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. LEA, Mahwah, NJ. 534-540 p.
• Stefanone, M., Hancock, J. T., Gay, G. K., & Ingraffea, A. R. (2004). Emergent networks, locus of control and the pursuit of social capital. Proceedings of the ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. 592-595 p.
• Hancock, J. T., Thom-Santelli, J., & Ritchie, T. (2004). Deception and design: The impact of communication technologies on lying behavior. oceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004). ACM, New York. 130-136 p.
• Person, N., Hancock, J. T., Burke, D. R., & Graesser, A. C. (2004). A Linguistic Model that Infers User States and Traits. Proceedings, Intelligent Tutor Systems.
• Hancock, J. T., (1999). The importance of coordination devices in text-based, task-oriented conversations.. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 1999). ACM , NY. 316-317 p.

Awards and Honors

• Top Paper - 2010 - ICA Communication Technology Division
• Provost’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship - 2009 - Cornell University
• Institute for Social Sciences Fellowship - 2008 - Cornell University
• SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching - 2008 - SUNY
• CSCW 2008 Top Note Nomination (a) CHI 2008 - 2008 - ACM CSCW 2008
• CSCW 2008 Top Note Nomination (b) CHI 2008 - 2008 - ACM CSCW 2008
• Best Note Nominee - 2007 - CHI2007
• Top Paper - 2007 - Communities and Technology Conference
• Top Paper - 2007 - ICA Communication Technology Division
• Cornell University Panhellenic Faculty Recognition Nomination - 2006 - Cornell University
• Cornell University Panhellenic Faculty Recognition Nomination - 2005 - Cornell University
• Cornell Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award - 2005 - Cornell University
• Cornell University Panhellenic Faculty Recognition Nomination - 2004 - Cornell University
• Merrill Presidential Outstanding Educator Award - 2004
• Top paper nominee - 2004 - HICSS 2004
• Cornell University Panhellenic Faculty Recognition Nomination - 2003
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship - 2002

Professional Activities

• The Education of Jeff Hancock and a Small Roast of Joe Walther.. November 2012. 98th Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association.. Orlando, FL.
• Deception and Cybersecurity.. October 2012. National Science Foundation. Washington, DC..
• Social Media and Socially Mediated Emotions: Emotional Expression and Contagion. . October 2012. Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Austin, TX.
• Psychological Dynamics of Social Medi. September 2012. Cornell Tech Campus. NYC, NY.
• The Future of Lying.. September 2012. TEDx Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Canada.
• eception in the Deception Age. July 2012. Facebook. Menlo Park, CA.
• Social Support, Influence and Health: Using Technology to Understand and Improve Social Relationships and Health. July 2012. Facebook. Menlo Park, CA.
• Social Media and Implication for Public Opinion and Survey Research. May 2012. American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). Orlando, FL.
• Contagion, Affirmation & Lies: The Psychology of Social Media. February 2012. Microsoft Research (MSR). Bellevue, WA.
• Digital Deception. January 2012. Office of Naval Research (ONR). San Diego, CA.
• Emotional Expression and Contagion in Text-Based Communication. . January 2012. Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). San Diego, CA.
• The Psychology of Money. January 2012. One Day University. New York, NY.
• Polite Task-Switching: Technology, Ambiguity and Autonomy in a Work Organization. May 2011. International Communication Association. Boston, MA.
• Attributions for group failure: Their effects on group processes and performance in virtual groups. November 2010. National Communication Association. San Francisco, CA.
• Butler lies in computer-mediated interactions. November 2010. National Communication Association. San Francisco, CA.
• Disclosure reciprocity in computer-mediated versus face-to-face interactions. November 2010. National Communication Association. San Francisco, CA.
• Mediating effects of attributions on the disclosure-intimacy link in computer-mediated and face-to-face interactions. November 2010. National Communication Association. San Francisco, CA.
• Being human in the bio-digital age. November 2010. Boston, MA.
• Media and Interrogation. September 2010. Orlando, FL.
• The Brand New World of Lying. September 2010. Cornell Univeristy. Ithaca, NY.
• More human than human. August 2010. Cornell Univeristy. Ithaca, NY.
• Ambiguous Accounts: How Media Attributes Shape Everyday Availability Management. June 2010. International Communication Association. Singapore.
• Visualizing language use in team conversations: designing through theory, experiments, and iterations. April 2010. Association for Computing Machinery. Atlanta, GA.
• On Technology and Deception. April 2010. Harvard Berkman Institute. Cambridge, MA.
• “’on my way’: Deceptive Texting and Interpersonal Awareness Narratives. February 2010. Association for Computing Machinery. Savanna, GA.
• Lying in the Networked Age. February 2010. Microsoft Research. Cambridge, MA.
• Six Years of Lying: An Overview of Deception Research at Cornell. February 2010. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
• The Brand New World of Lying. January 2010. The One Day University. New York City, NY.
• Profiles as Promise. December 2009. Oxford Internet Institute. Oxford, UK.
• Butler Lies: Awareness, Deception and Design. April 2009. Association for Computing Machinery. Boston, MA.
• Visualizing Real-Time Language-Based Feedback on Teamwork Behavior in Computer-Mediated Group. April 2009. Association for Computing Machinery. Boston, MA.
• Web of Deceit - When, Where and Why People Lie Online. November 2008. University of Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
• Automated Linguistic Analysis Workshop. October 2008. Department of Communication and Department of Technology, Information Science and Media (TSIM). Lansing, MI.
• Digital Deception: Can technology shape deception?. October 2008. Department of Communication. Lansing, MI.
• Nasty but smart? Individual differences in sarcasm use. July 2008. Society for Text and Discourse. Memphis, TN.
• Identification, realism and ideal-self in interpreting media characters. May 2008. International Communication Association. Montreal, Canada.
• Oh what linguistically rich and dequentially tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive. May 2008.
• Putting Your Best Face Forward: The Accuracy of Online Dating Photographs. May 2008. International Communication Association. Montreal.
• Social Identification and Interpersonal Perception in Computer-Mediated Communication: What You Do Versus Who You Are in Virtual Groups. May 2008. International Communication Association. Montreal.
• The Priming Effects of Avatars in Virtual Settings. May 2008. International Communication Association. Montreal.
• Measuring affect in hci: going beyond the individual. April 2008. Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM). Florence, Italy.
• Secrets and Lies: Theories and Methods in CMC. April 2008. Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM). Florence, Italy.
• The Social and Cognitive Aspects of Online Behavior. February 2008. University of British Columbia. Okanagan, Kelowna, BC.
• An introduction to Apate.net – a system for collecting instant messaging data. . January 2008. HICSS. Big Island, Hawaii.
• Self-Concept Change in Online Environments. November 2007. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL.
• Web of Deceit – When, Where, and Why People Lie Online. October 2007. University of British Columbia. Okanagan, Kelowna, BC.
• The Practice of Lying in the Digital Age. September 2007. University of Bath. Bath, UK.
• Linguistic analysis in non-cognitive faking. July 2007. Society for Text & Discourse. Glasgow, Scotland.
• True Lies: The Nature of Deception in Online Dating Profiles. June 2007. East Lansing, MI.
• Eat your words: Linguistic Analysis of Homicidal Psychopaths. June 2007. Padua, Italy.
• Attending to the Unattended: Disfluencies and Discourse Markers in Deceptive Conversation. May 2007. San Francisco, CA.
• Deceptive Self-Presentation in Online Dating Profiles. May 2007. San Francisco, CA.
• Web of Deceit – When, Where, and Why People Lie Online. April 2007. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA.
• Deception: Methods, Motives, Contexts & Consequences, Part II. March 2007. Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, NM.
• Web of Deceit – When, Where, and Why People Lie Online. March 2007. Indiana University. Bloomington, ID.
• Beliefs to cues about deception in online environments. January 2007. Hawaii, USA.
• Two approaches to the linguistic analysis of deception. January 2007. Hawaii, USA.
• Nice to meet you. Deception in online first encounters. November 2006. Banff, Canada.
• Discovering where the truth lies: Using Coh-Metrix to detect deception in text. November 2006. Houston, Texas.
• Web of Deceit – When, Where, and Why People Lie Online. November 2006. University of Calgary. Calgary, AB.
• Lying to yourself and lying to others: Social desirability and language features. June 2006. Minneapolis, MN.
• The language of emotion in computer-mediated communication. June 2006. Minneapolis, MN.
• Avatar color and social identity effects on Attitudes and group dynamics in online video games. June 2006. International Communication Association. Dresden, Germany.
• Relational Control in Computer-Mediated Groups: An Interactional Approach to Dominance Perceptions in Distributed and Collocated Groups. June 2006. International Communication Association. Dresden, Germany.
• Digital Deception: Predicting and Detecting Digital Deception. April 2006. Rhodes University. Memphis, LA.
• Technology, Lies and the Psychology of Deception. April 2006. New School. New York, NY.
• Web of Deceit – When, Where, and Why People Lie Online. April 2006. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.
• Beliefs about cues to deception in face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions. March 2006. Jacksonville, Fl.
• Factors on the Fringes: Motivational and Potential Personality Factors Influencing Linguistic Cues To Deception. January 2006. Hawaii, USA.
• Linguistic Analysis of Deception Tutorial. Workshop on Surveillance Technologies. January 2006. Hawaii, USA.
• Digital Deception: Predicting and Detecting Digital Deception. July 2005. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Looking for lies in all the wrong places: disfluencies and discourse markers in deceptive conversation. June 2005. Chicago, IL.
• Another look at SIDE: Visual and Personal Identifiability in Computer-Mediated Communication. May 2005. International Communication Association. New York, NY.
• The Construction of Away Messages: A Speech Act Analysis. May 2005. New York, NY.
• The Dialogic Aspects of Attribution, Identification, and Distribution in Online Groups. May 2005. International Communication Association. New York, NY.
• Treading Uncommon Ground: Designing for New Shared Experiences through Appropriation. April 2005. Portland, OR.
• Deception: Methods, Motives, Contexts & Consequences, Part I. April 2005. Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, NM.
• The dialogic Aspects of Attribution, Identification, and distribution in Online Groups. 2005. New York, NY.
• Digital Deception: Production and Detection. October 2004. American University. Washington, DC.
• Digital Deception: When, Where and How People Lie Online. October 2004. Northwestern University. Chicago, IL.
• Digital Deception. September 2004. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
• Does the medium matter? A comparative analysis of openings in face-to-face and computer-mediated reference interactions. June 2004. Tampa, FL.
• Effect of communication medium and motivation on deception detection. May 2004. International Communication Association. New Orleans, LA.
• An analysis of instrumental and socio-emotional content in online multiplayer videogames. May 2004. New Orleans, LA.
• The equalization phenomenon: Interpersonal sensitivity and the impact of medium. 2004. Austin, TX.
• Deception detection in computer-mediated and face-to-face interactions: Effects of medium and motivation. 2004. Phoenix, AZ.
• What lies beneath: The effect of communication medium on deception production. 2004. Chicago, IL.
• Communicative Environments and the Production of Irony: A Comparison of Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Conversations. 2004. International Communication Association. New Orleans, LA.
• Communicative Environments and the Production of Irony: A Comparison of Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Conversations. 2004. International Association for Language and Social Psychology and International Communication Association.
• Trust, deception and communication ‘rules’ for distributed teams. 2004.
• Ambiguous language and the effect of communication technology. June 2003. York University, York, UK.
• Interface Threatening Acts. June 2003. Madrid, Spain.
• Impact of conversational perspective and interpersonal relationship on the perception of irony. 2003. Vancouver, BC.
• Effects of medium on face concerns and the production of verbal irony. 2003. Society for Text and Discourse. Madrid, Spain.
• Pieces of the “Humor in the Interface” puzzle: Expectations, common ground and discourse goals. 2003. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
• Users and lies: the impact of technology on lying behavior. 2003. International Communication Association. San Diego, CA.
• Irony or Deception? An Examination of Computer-Mediated Language Use. November 2002. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
• The role of expectations in spontaneous irony production. 2002. Chicago, IL.
• Contextual and cognitive factors in the asymmetry of verbal irony production. 2002. Orlando, FL.
• Irony use in face-to-face and computer-mediated conversations. 2001. Orlando, FL.
• Language use in impoverished communicative environments: The role of coordination devices. 2000. New Orleans.
• An asymmetry in children’s understanding of the meaning and functions of verbal ironic criticisms and compliments. 1999. Albuquerque, NM.
• To Hebb and Beyond. 1998. Canadian Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Sciences.

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