Steve Johnson is director of character education at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif. He has written numerous articles on topics in youth ethics, including cheating and lying.

The Soderquist Center for Leadership and Ethics at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark., is devoted to fostering good business ethics. Many of the directors are former executives of Wal-Mart, which has faced lawsuits alleging that store managers routinely falsify employee timecards.

Stan Walters, a.k.a. “The Lie Guy,” is the author of The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself From Deception (Sourcebooks Trade, 2000). He teaches courses in kinesic interviewing and interrogation to law enforcement officials throughout the country and has served as an expert on interview and interrogation for Johns Hopkins University. He […]

Teresa Fishman is the executive director for the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University. The center offers resources to help students adhere to five principles, including honesty.

Bella DePaulo is a visiting professor of psychology at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She is an expert on lying.

Dr. M. William Howard Jr. is the senior pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., a partner in the New Jersey Character Education Partnership, which tries to instill values, including honesty, in local children.

Steve Ellenwood is the acting director of the Center for Character and Social Responsibility at Boston University in Massachusetts.

Michelle Whittaker is communications director for the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Church and Society. Part of the GBCS’s mission is to promote “personal, social and civic righteousness.” Contact through the website.

The Josephson Institute of Ethics conducted a survey of youth ethics in 2012. A similar survey is conducted annually. The 2012 survey showed a drop in lying, cheating, and stealing among American youth for the first time in a decade.