The use of deception in sexual encounters may take many forms, ranging from outright lies to more subtle, evasive manipulations. The Sexual Deception Scale was developed to assess such behavior-based sexual deceptions within a social exchange framework.

Marelich, W.D., Lundquist, J., Painter, K., & Mechanic, M.B. (2008). Sexual deception as a social-exchange process: Development of a behavior-based sexual deception scale. The Journal of Sex Research, 45, 27-35. [Link to Article and Scale]

Marelich, W.D., & Slaughter, R. (2011). The sexual deception scale. In T.D. Fisher, C.M. Davis, W.L Yarber, & S.L. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of sexually-related measures (pp. 544-546). NY: Routledge.