Deception : from ancient empires to Internet dating / edited by Brooke Harrington ; with a foreword by Murray Gell-Mann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrington, Brooke, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deception.

Deception--Social aspects.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Physical Description:

xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction : beyond true and false / Brooke Harrington

Dealing with deception in biology / Carl T. Bergstrom

Paltering / Frederick Schauer and Richard Zeckhauser

Thoughts, feelings, and deception / Mark G. Frank

Why most people parse palters, fibs, lies, whoppers, and other deceptions poorly / Maureen O'Sullivan

Digital doctoring : can we trust photographs? / Hany Farid

Digital deception : the practice of lying in the digital age / Jeffrey T. Hancock

Cognitive hacking : detecting deception on the Web / Paul Thompson

Leaps and lapses of faith : exploring the relationship between trust and deception / Guido Möllering

Tying the truth in knots : trustworthiness and accountability in the Inka khipu / Gary Urton

Does rumor lie? : narrators, trust, and the framing of unsecured information / Gary Alan Fine

Crocodile tears, or, Method acting in everyday life / Tom Lutz

Deception and trust in health crises / Ford Rowan

Responding to deception : the case of fraud in financial markets / Brooke Harrington

Military deception in the information age : scale matters / William Glenney IV

The pleasures of lying / Kenneth Fields.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-327) and index.

ISBN:

9780804756495

080475649X

OCLC:

294935621