Description
Book SynopsisThis accessible yet scholarly book focuses on the study of the psychology of lying and misrepresentation, exploring the analysis of the cognitive and neural mechanisms that allow the construction of a false response, both consciously and as a consequence of a brain injury. Drawing on perspectives from experimental, neuropsychological and developmental psychology as well as philosophy, the book examines the mechanisms that allow us all to learn to lie and use lies for different ends and in everyday life.
The Psychology of Lying and Misrepresentations opens with an introductory chapter on lies and the processes underlying their production. It goes on to examine our innate desire to believe, and the clinical and technical methods used to determine whether someone is lying or telling the truth. The book takes a closer look at false memories and self-deception and the reasons behind their establishment and success in an individual's life. It then moves on from focusin
Table of Contents
1 Lies; 2 Learning to Lie; 3 Believing Is Easy; 4 Lie Detectors; 5 Pathological Lies and Self-Deception; 6 Memory: Functional Organisation and Its Neurological Basis; 7 Manipulating Public Memory: Fake News, Bullshit, and Factoids; 8 Brain Damage and False Memories: Confabulations; 9 The Neuropsychology of Delusion and Misidentification
