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= Norah Dunbar = Norah Dunbar is the professor and chair of interpersonal communication at The University of California at Santa Barbara. She has several areas of expertise within the field of communication studies including deception detections, interpersonal communication, power and dominance in interpersonal communication, and research methods. Dr. Dunbar has many published works in her field starting in 1999 and has continued to publish works up until present day. One of Dunbar's most recent works examines how liars strategically use interaction synchrony to build rapport with their interactants. Her work has been referenced by many others. On October 11,2020, in a blog for Education Week, their online publication, Peter Dewitt referenced A Review of Humor in Educational Settings: Four Decades of Research, Communication Education, a paper Dunbar coauthored, when giving 4 ways teachers can better engage students.

Education
Norah Dunbar holds a PhD in Communication from University of Arizona, 2000. Prior to that she recieved a MA in Human Communication, California State University Chico in1996, and a

BA in Speech Communication, University of Nevada Reno in1994.

Career
Dr. Dunbar is a professor and human communication researcher at The Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara. She has taught courses in communication studies including courses on interpersonal communication and understanding human deception. She is also a well respected researcher who uses both observational and experimental research methods. She has been a team member for profects that received over $13,000,000 in grant money. Her work has been cited in many articles about interpersonal communication, deception, deception detection, and other concepts of communication studies.

She is also an accomplished author with 65 plus books and peer reviewed journal articles published. She also has written over 100 papers that she presented to attendees in national and international conferences. Her work has been featured in well known journals and covers a variety of topics in her field such as: Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. She has also been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Journal of Management Information Systems and Computers in Human Behavior.

Dr. Dunbar continues to teach under graduate courses in the communication college at The University of California at Santa Barbara. She also lectures and speaks about her projects and study results. Her work is relevant is a variety of fields, but it is always based on Communication Theory.

Nora and her work in the field of lying, deception, and deception detection has lead her to be a contributing developer for a video game called VERITAS (Veracity Education and Reactance Instruction through Technology and Applied Skills). The game helps people improve their lie detection skills. The average person in America detects lies with an accuaracy rate of around 54%. Dr Dunbar reports that frequent players of VERITAS have improved their skills, with results as high as 78%.

Published Work
She is a highly accomplished researcher with more than 35 journal articles and book chapters. Her work has been featured in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. She has also been a contributing author for anthologies works like The Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, The Sage Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, and The Sourcebook for Nonverbal Research Measures.

Dunbar has a variety of interesting published work in her field. She works with others to combine her work in communication studies and other fields to expand understanding in the field of human communication. She often streches the boundries of how human communication is studied. This is apparent in her work with robotics and computer games. In an IEEE project she performed research on robotics and lie detection. In her investigation, Dunbar and her colleagues considered whether automated methods can produce better results and if emphasizing the possible disruption in interactional synchrony can signal whether an interactant is truthful or deceptive. Norah also published research on the use of games as an effective training tool. Science Daily even wrote an article about her video game research project. Dr. Dunbar combined her work on lying with video games for a research project which she discussed in an article called "Face Value ," for her University's publication, The Current.