Books/Chapters:

Hart, C. L. & Curtis, D. A. (2023). Big liars: What psychological science tells us about lying, and how you can avoid being duped. American Psychological Association.

Curtis, D. A. & Hart, C. L. (2022). Pathological Lying: Theory, Research, and Practice. American Psychological Association.

Curtis, D. A. & Kelley, L. (2020). Abnormal Psychology: Myths of “Crazy” (3rd ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Curtis, D. A. & Kelley, L. (2018). Foundations of Abnormality: Myths, Misconceptions, and Movies. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Curtis, D. A. (2018). Social Cognition: A World of Beliefs. In W. K. Jeter (Ed.),Thinking Critically about Social Psychology. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Curtis, D. A. (2016). Social Cognition: A World of Beliefs. In J. M. Bonds-Raacke (Ed.),Thinking Critically about Social Psychology. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

Refereed Articles:

Curtis, D. A. (in review). Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, and Boogie Man: Perceived Parental Deception. The Journal of General Psychology

Curtis, D. A., Hart, C. L., & Talwar, V. (in review). Executive Functioning in Adolescent Pathological Liars: Examining Prevalence and Etiology. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Curtis, D. A., Hart, C. L., & Coelho, L. (in review). The Impact of Pathological Lying on Relationships. Personal Relationships

Curtis, D. A., Hart, C.L., & *Schneemann, A. C. (2024). A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Pathological Lying. Psychological Studies.

Hart, C. L., Curtis, D. A., Terrizzi, J. (2024). Development and Validation of the Pathological Lying Inventory. Current Psychology

Barnett-Boyles, M., Hart, C. L., & Curtis, D. A. (2024). Client deception in therapy is associated with worse therapeutic relationships and therapeutic outcomes. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.

Moore, K. D., Roggenbauer, A., Stephenson, K. B., VanHoose, L., Curtis, D. A., & Huang, H. H. (2023). The Prevalence of Wound Care Practice as Observed by Physical Therapists in the United States. Physiotherapy theory and practice.

Curtis, D. A. (2023). The Hydra Hypothesis: How do lies grow out of control? Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pathological-lying-and-deception/202311/the-hydra-hypothesis

Kelley, L. J., Espinoza, A., Curtis, D. A., Randell, A., & Abuharthieh, A. K. (2023). Accuracy and Response Time for Modus Ponens Syllogisms Vary by Controversial Topic and Categorical Emotion. Psychological Reports, 126(6), 3000-3027. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941221125777

Curtis, D. A. (2023). ‘Help! I am a pathological liar’ Recommendations and treatment considerations for pathological lying. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pathological-lying-and-deception/202307/help-i-am-a-pathological-liar

Curtis, D. A. (2023). Why pathological lying is a psychological disorder. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pathological-lying-and-deception/202304/pathological-lying-a-psychological-disorder

Curtis, D. A., Mohesky, A., & Good, C. (2023). The use of augmentative alternative communication in psychotherapy. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 23, 864–870. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12657

Curtis, D. A., *Dickens, C., & Hart, C.L. (2022). Others’ Deception Attitude Measure. North American Journal of Psychology.

Kelley, L. J., Saenz, I. M., & Curtis, D. A. (2022). An Analysis of Lilienfeld et al. (2015) Problematic Psychological Terms. The Journal of General Psychology, 1–19. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2022.2076060

Moore, K. D., Sterling, K., VanHoose, L., Curtis, D. A., & Huang, H. H. (2021). The prevalence of wound management physical therapist practice in the state of Texas. Physiotherapy theory and practice, 1–9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2021.2017092

Huang, H-H., Gathright, B., Holik, R., Iverson, H., Saville, E., & Curtis, D. A. (2021). Active Video Game Program for People with Type 2 Diabetes- A Pilot
Study. Applied Sciences. 11(22), 1-9. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/app112211046.

Curtis, D. A. & Hart, C.L. (2021). Pathological Lying: Psychotherapists’ Experiences and Ability to Diagnose. American Journal of Psychotherapy.

Curtis, D. A., Kelley, L. J. (2021). Psychomythology of psychopathology: Myths and mythbusting in teaching abnormal psychology. Teaching of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283211023195

Curtis, D. A., Levine, T. R., Hart, C. L., Serota, K. B. (2021). Does information about the frequency of lying impact perceptions of honesty? North American Journal of Psychology, 23(2), 187-202.

Curtis, D. A. (2021). You liar! Attributions of lying. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.

Curtis, D. A., Kelley, L. J. (2021). The 4 Fs: A model to understand psychopathology. Educator Perspectives.

Curtis, D. A., Nicks, K. L. & Huang, H-H., (2021). Patient Deception in Healthcare: Longitudinal Effects of Different Educational Interventions. North American Journal of Psychology. 23(1) 77-94.

Curtis, D. A. (2020). Deception detection and emotion recognition: Investigating F.A.C.E. software. Psychotherapy Research, doi: 10.1080/10503307.2020.1836424

Curtis, D. A., Braziel, J., *Redfearn, R. A., & *Hall, J. (2020). Lying to patients: Ethics of deception in nursing. Clinical Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750920977103

Curtis, D. A. & Hart, C.L. (2020). Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.prcp.20190046

Hart, C.L., Lemon, R., Curtis, D. A., Griffith, J. D. (2020). Personality traits associated with various forms of lying. Psychological Studies.

*Crank, S. D., & Curtis, D. A. (2020). And nothing but the truth: An exploration of perjury. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. doi: 10.1007/s11896-020-09383-1

Brown, B., McCutcheon, L., Aruguete, M., Jurs, B., Curtis, D. A. (2019). Are Celebrities Really Admired for their Morality? Psychological Reports.

Curtis, D. A. & Kelley, L. J. (2019). Ethics of psychotherapist deception. Ethics & Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2019.1674654

*Dickens, C. & Curtis, D. A. (2019). Lies in the law: Therapists’ beliefs and attitudes about deception. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice, 19, 359-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/24732850.2019.1666604

Curtis, D. A. & Hart, C.L. (2019). Deception in psychotherapy: Frequency, typology, and relationship. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 20:106–115. DOI:10.1002/capr.12263

Hart, C.L., Jones, J. M., Terrizzi, J. A. Jr., & Curtis, D. A. (2019). Development of the Lying in Everyday Situations (LiES) Scale. American Journal of Psychology, 132, 343-352. DOI:10.5406/amerijpsyc.132.3.0343 DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.132.3.0343  DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.132.3.0343

Curtis, D. A. & Kelley, L. (2019) Myth-checking: Evaluating teaching activities in abnormal psychology. North American Journal of Psychology, 21 (2), 245-252.

Curtis, D. A., Huang, H-H., & Nicks, K. L. (2018). Patient Deception in Health Care: Physical Therapy Education, Beliefs, and Attitudes," International Journal of Health Sciences Education, 5(1).

Curtis, D. A., & Moore, K. (2018). The first day of class: Starting with an activity or syllabus? North American Journal of Psychology, 20 (3), 653-670.

Huang, H-H., Cook, L., Harrison, j., O’Keefe, N., Schultz, K., & Curtis, D. A. (2017) Exercise by playing active video gaming in overweight and obese children. Journal of Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine, 1(1): 25-31.

*Cargill, J.R., & Curtis, D.A. (2017) Parental Deception: Perceived Effects on Parent-Child Relationships, Journal of Relationships Research, 8. doi: 10.1017/jrr.2017.1

Curtis, D. A. & Hart, C. L. (2015). Does Pinocchio’s nose grow in therapy? Therapists’ attitudes and beliefs toward client deception. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 375, 279-292.

Curtis, D. A. (2015). Patient deception: Nursing professionals’ beliefs and attitudes. Nurse Educator, 40, 254-257.

Hart, C. L., Curtis, D. A., Williams, N. M., Hathaway, M. D., & Griffith, J. D. (2014). Do as I say, not as I do: Benevolent deception in romantic relationships.  Journal of Relationships Research, 5, 1–6.

*Behimehr, S. N., Curtis, D. A., Curtis, R. L., & Hart, C. L. (2014). Whose problem is it anyway? Perceived healthcare providers' responsibility in postpartum depression. Journal of Reproductive Medicine. 59, 139-144.

Curtis, D. A. & Desforges, D. M. (2013). Less is more: Choice quantity affects conformity. North American Journal of Psychology, 15, 89-102.

Curtis, D. A., & Hart, C. L. (2012). Save the Best for Last? Social Psychology Taught in Introductory Psychology Courses. American Journal of Psychological Research, 8:21-30 www.mcneese.edu/ajpr

*denotes supervised student