Lavoie, J., Williams, S., Lyon, T. D., & Quas J. A. (2022). Do children unintentionally report maltreatment? Comparison of disclosures of neglect versus sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 133, 105824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105824

Henderson, H. M., Konovalov, H., Williams, S., & Lyon T. D. (2021). The utility of the birthday prompt in narrative practice with maltreated and non-maltreated 4-to 9-year-old children. Applied Developmental Science, 1-10, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2021.1963729

McWilliams, K., Stolzenberg, S. N., Williams, S., & Lyon, T. (2021). Increasing maltreated and nonmaltreated children's recall disclosures of a minor transgression: The effects of back-channel utterances, a promise to tell the truth and a post-recall putative confession. Child Abuse & Neglect, 116, 104073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104073

Gongola, J., Williams, S., & Lyon T. D. (2021). Children's Under-Informative Responding is Associated with Concealment of a Transgression. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(4), 1065-1974. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3840

Bruer, K. C., Furlong, M. A., Williams, S., & Evans A. D. (2021). Adults' sensitivity to the age-appropriateness of lawyer's questioning of children in a physical abuse case. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 53(4), 469-479. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000266

Williams, S., McWilliams, K., & Lyon, T. (2020). Children's concealment of a minor transgression: The role of age, maltreatment and executive functioning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104664

Stolzenberg, S. N., Williams, S., McWilliams., Liang C. , & Lyon, T. D. (2019). “What did you think?” “How did you feel?” encouraging evaluative content in children's disclosures of abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect (Special Issue). Advance online publication.

Nagar, P., Williams, S., & Talwar V. (2019). The influence of an older sibling on preschoolers' lie-telling behavior. Social Development, 28(4), 1095-1110. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12367

Williams, S., Ahern, E., & Lyon, T. D. (2019). The relation between young children's false statements and response latency, executive functioning and truth-lie understanding. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 65(1), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.65.1.0081

Leduc, K., Williams, S., Gomez-Garibello, C., & Talwar V. (2017). The contributions of mental state understanding and executive functioning to preschool-aged children's lie-telling. The British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35(2), 288-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12163

Williams, S., Leduc, K., Crossman, A., & Talwar V. (2017). Young deceivers: Executive functioning and antisocial lie-telling in preschool aged children. Infant and Child Development, 26(1),. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1956

Talwar, V., Williams, S., Renaud, S. J., Arruda, C., & Saykaly, C. (2016). Children's evaluations of tattles, confessions prosocial and antisocial lies. International Review of Pragmatics, 8, 334-352. https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-00802007

Williams, S., Moore, K., Crossman, A. M., & Talwar V. (2016). The role of executive functions and theory of mind in children's prosocial lie-telling. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 141, 256-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.08.001

Williams, S., Talwar, V., Lindsay, R. C. L., Bala, N., & Lee K. (2014). Is the truth in your words? Distinguishing children's deceptive and truthful statements. Journal of Criminology, (3), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/547519

Williams, S., Kirmayer, M., Simon, T., & Talwar V. (2013). Children's antisocial and prosocial lies to familiar and unfamiliar adults. Infant and Child Development, 22, 430-438. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1802

Talwar, V., Crossman, A, Williams, S., & Muir S. (2011). Adult detection of children's selfish and polite lies: Experience matters. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 2837-2857. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00861.x

Talwar, V., Crossman, A, Gulmi, J., Renuad, S-J., & Williams, S. (2009). Pants on fire? Detecting children's lies. Applied Developmental Science, 13, 119-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888690903041519