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Leanne ten Brinke is a communication research scholar whom specializes in emotional and high-stakes deception. Despite these specializations, however, Brinke has conducted research that transcends across several different areas of deception. Over the span of her career, Brinke has contributed studies regarding social cognition, trust paradoxes, and the behavioral consequences of deception. With decades of research amassed in her portfolio, Brinke is regarded as one of the more prominent deception scholars in the field of communication research. Currently, Brinke is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia where she directs the University's Truth and Trust Lab.

Early Life
Leanne was born and raised in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, a town in Antigonish County that is approximately 160 kilometers (100 miles) northeast from Halifax, the provincial capital. Upon graduation from high school, Brinke travelled just under 221 kilometers (140 miles) to attend Dalhousie University in western Halifax, Nova Scotia. During her time there, Brinke contributed to several different University research journals. Additionally, after receiving a Bachelors of Science (B.Sc) from Dalhousie University in 2007, Leanne returned for an additional two years to obtain a Masters of Science (M.Sc). She completed her studies and received her certificate in 2009.

The University of British Columbia
After receiving her Masters in Science at Dalhousie, Brinke applied and was admitted into a doctoral program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). While pursuing her PhD, Brinke continued conducting research in the field of deception. During her time in her doctoral program, Leanne began secularizing her focus on the paradox of trust. Her research aimed to discover what influences existed that impacted people's ability or inability to trust one another. Additionally, during this period of her research, Brinke looked to answer why the accuracy of people's decisions to trust was so poor. Though the majority of Brinke's research during her doctoral stages was conducted internally at UBC, she also split time conducting research for the London Business School and her alma mater Dalhousie University. Leanne ten Brinke received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia in 2012.

Post-Doctoral Research
After receiving her doctoral degree from the University of British Columbia, Leanne ten Brinke began focusing her time and energy in getting her research published. Following 2012, Leanne accepted a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley. While in this position, Brinke expanded her portfolio to encompass numerous different facets of deception, and transcended into an unfamiliar territory: deception detection. In her first few published works post-doctorates, ten Brinke conducted research on facial expressions and deception leakage, behavioral consequences of deceivers , and deceptive body language and remorse.

During the first few years after receiving her PhD, ten Brinke also began researching deception using a psychological approach opposed to a communicative one. Between the years of 2013 and 2015, Leanne ten Brinke published a selection of works analyzing the correlation that exists between cognition (awareness), emotion, and deception. Furthermore, while Leanne still got published in communication journals around the topic of deception, it was during this time that she first began getting published in Psychology journals as well. Her ability to transcend the confines of communication research during this time proved to be one of the main contributors to the national and international recognition she began to receive.

University of Denver
In 2016, Leanne accepted a job at the University of Denver to serve as an Assistant Professor for the department of Communication Studies. While in this role, Brinke continued to conduct research in the fields of communicative and psychological deception.

Return to the University of British Columbia and the Truth and Trust Lab
In 2018, Leanne ten Brinke returned to the University of British Columbia after accepting a job to be their newest Assistant Professor of Psychology. Additionally, Brinke also accepted the opportunity to be the University's Truth and Trust Lab director.

The Truth and Trust Lab is a space open to UBC's graduate students who desire to research how honesty (or a lack thereof) can affect individuals' tendency to trust one another. The Lab ultimately focuses its research on an interpersonal basis, and within three primary areas: power and influence, telling lies, and trusting others. The lab prioritizes utilizing a diverse methodology to accomplish research goals and build an understanding of how the relationship between truth and trust affects the real world.