David Smith's 2004 book 'Why We Lie' published in Spanish edition

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies David Livingstone Smith's 2004 book, Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, has been published in a Spanish-language edition by Oceano, under the title ¿Por Que Mentimos?: Las Raices del Engaño y el Inconsciente.

When the original English edition in 2004 was published by St. Martins Press, Why We Lie captured the national media’s attention, including excepts in Seed magazine, a review in Psychology Today, an article in the Wall Street Journal, and interviews with Smith on Fox News Live and Forbes.com, among other media outlets.

U.S. News & World Report, for instance, quoted Smith in a December 2005 story titled "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire," which looked at media figures such as Baltimore Orioles player Rafael Palmeiro and Martha Stewart and at a New York Times/CBS poll on the Bush administration's credibility on the case for the Iraq War.

Then in September 2006, National Geographic Television flew Smith down to their studios in Washington DC to interview him for a PBS documentary on the science of lying. In October 2006, the Brazilian magazine, Veja, the fourth largest weekly magazine in the world, published an interview with Smith in a wide ranging discussion about deception in relation to politics.

Smith's latest book is Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others (St. Martin’s Press, March 2011).