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

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  177.3 D355 2009    ---  Available
Description xii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-327) and index.
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 Mollering -- 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.
Subject Deception.
Deception -- Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Added Author Harrington, Brooke, 1968-
ISBN 9780804756495 (cloth : alk. paper)
080475649X (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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