Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating |  | Creator: Brooke Harrington
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 080475649X
Dewey Decimal Number: 177.3
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Publication Date: April 27, 2009
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From Internet-dating profiles to Native American folktales to the photo trickery of Hollywood gossip magazines, this volume explores deception and offers insights from leading figures in disparate fields, drawing out surprising commonalities. For the first time, one broadly accessible volume pulls together classic philosophical debates on deception with examinations of contemporary issues, including stock market fraud and terrorism. Deception offers a unique perspective on the state of the art: readers will find scholars from biology and physics in conversation with experts in mass media and culture, and archaeologists engaged with ideas from military strategists.
As the essays make clear, deception touches virtually every aspect of our lives; in fact, recent psychological research suggests that we each tell at least two to three lies per day. Throughout the animal kingdom, survival and reproduction depend upon successful deceptions.
But while deception has captured the interest of philosophers, scientists, warriors, and artists over thousands of years, our knowledge of the subject is limited. At the same time, new technologies have made deception more commonplace, more dangerous, and more difficult to detect than ever. Deception is a particularly timely and insightful work. Its scope and subject make it compelling reading for a broad readership.
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The latest psychological research suggests that normal human beings tell at least two or three lies daily July 14, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating is an anthology of essays by learned scholars in branches of expertise ranging from biology and physics to archaeologists to military strategists, concerning a psychological phenomenon that affects nearly every aspect of human life up to the modern day: deception. The latest psychological research suggests that normal human beings tell at least two or three lies daily; deception also plays a critical role in the animal kingdom, both in matters of survival and reproduction. Yet despite deception's pervasive, intrinsic effect on human culture, human knowledge of it is limited - even as new tools such as the Internet have made deception more commonplace and easier to spread than ever before. Individual essays of "Deception" include "Why Most People Parse Palters, Fibs, Lies, Whoppers, and Other Deceptions Poorly", "Digital Doctoring: Can We Trust Photographs?", "Does Rumor Lie? Narrators, Trust, and the Framing of Information", "Crocodile Tears, or, Method Acting in Everyday Life", "The Pleasures of Lying", and many more. An enthusiastically recommended and much-needed addition to psychology collections. "On the positive side, the ability suspend disbelief is part of the enjoyment of art and many leisure activities... In our personal lives, we may also collude with liars who tell us what we want to believe or need to believe. In addition, we are often lazy and do not care whether something is really true or just true enough. All of these habits of perception and reaction contribute to the poor parsing of deception."
10 to 15 Billion Lies Served Daily July 23, 2009
Larry Underwood (Scottsdale, AZ)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Brooke Harrington's anthology on deception is everything you wanted to know about lying but were afraid to ask. No that's not true; that's just another lie from me to you. I've still got another couple of lies left in me for the next 24 hours, but I'd better not waste them here; otherwise, my credibility's shot as an Amazon reviewer. What credibility?
Seriously, fellow liars; this is a great book. If it's true that the average human tells two to three lies per day, this planet is packed with 10 to 15 billion lies every day. Now that's scary. It's also enlightening.
The truth of the matter is, we really don't know who to trust anymore; whether it be our politicians (not recommended) or our best friends (only we can decide). Clearly, understanding some of the signals of deception could save someone a lot of heartache, or in these tough economic times, a lot of money. It could even save a career.
Cat Stevens had a hit back in the early '70s---"Oh baby, baby; it's a wild world"---Well into the 21st century, things have only gotten wilder. Harrington's book is your best bet for surviving the deceptive jungle of planet earth & its inhabitants.
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