Tested 2 hypotheses concerning differences between the face and body when a person is engaged in deception. 21 female nursing students were required to be honest in one interview, frankly describing their feelings about a pleasant film, and to be deceptive in another interview concealing negative affect aroused by an unpleasant film and simulating pleasant feelings. As predicted by the 1st hypothesis, the face was mentioned more often than the body when Ss were asked afterward what behavior should be censored or controlled in perpetrating deception. Videotapes of the facial and body behavior during the honest and deceptive interviews were shown to separate groups of observers (advanced psychology and speech students). The 2nd hypothesis-that when deceptive behavior was judged, more accurate judgments would be made from the body than from the face, but that when honest behavior was judged, there would be little difference in the accuracy achieved from the face or body-was partially supported. (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)