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The lying brain : lie detection in science and science fiction / Melissa M. Littlefield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Littlefield, Melissa M., 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lie detectors and detection.
- Criminal investigation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction
- Contents:
- Selling the psychological detective: Hugo Munsterberg's applied psychology and The achievements of Luther Trant, 1907-30
- The science of lying in a laboratory: William Marston's deceptive consciousness, 1913-22
- Thought in translation: reading the mind in science and science fiction, 1930-50
- Without a trace: brain fingerprinting, biometrics, and body snatching
- A tremor in the brain: fMRI lie detection, brain fingerprinting, and the organ of deceit in post-9/11 America
- Coda: lie detection as patterned repetition, from The demolished man to The truth machine.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613066626
- 9781283066624
- 1283066629
- 9780472027026
- 0472027026
- OCLC:
- 720673387
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