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Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology of Deceit » Read Now
by Charles V. Ford. 338 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Who lies? Not just children, politicians, advertisers, and salespeople. Our co-workers lie. Our friends lie. Our relatives lie. And we lie to them. Everybody lies.
We learn to lie and to detect deceit as a developmental task. Dr. Ford's concept is that lying is part of the bridge between one's...
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Who lies? Not just children, politicians, advertisers, and salespeople. Our co-workers lie. Our friends lie. Our relatives lie. And we lie to them. Everybody lies.
We learn to lie and to detect deceit as a developmental task. Dr. Ford's concept is that lying is part of the bridge between one's internal world (beliefs, perceptions, expectations, fantasies) and one's external world (reality). Lies work not only to deceive others but to deceive ourselves.
This book shines a spotlight on an understudied phenomenon that affects us all as we raise children, choose a relationship, move forward with a career path, or buy a used car.
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Freedom, Fame, Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life » Read Now
by Leszek Kolakowski, Agnieszka Kolakowska. 143 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is renowned worldwide for wrestling with serious philosophical conundrums with dazzling elegance. In this new book, he turns his characteristic wit to important themes of ordinary life, from the need for freedom to the wheel of fortune, from the nature of God to...
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Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski is renowned worldwide for wrestling with serious philosophical conundrums with dazzling elegance. In this new book, he turns his characteristic wit to important themes of ordinary life, from the need for freedom to the wheel of fortune, from the nature of God to the ambiguities of betrayal. Extremely lucid and lacking in intellectual pretension, these essays speak in everyday language, spurring the reader's own thoughts and providing a handle on which to debate and think about the themes. The eighteen essays cover the following topics: power, fame, equality, lying, toleration, travel, virtue, collective responsibility, the wheel of fortune, betrayal, violence, boredom, freedom, luxury, God, respect for nature, superstition, and national stereotypes.
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Lying, Despair, Jealousy, Envy, Sex, Suicide, Drugs, and the Good Life » Read Now
by Leslie H. Farber. 232 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Liking and Lying, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by Kathy L. Bell, Bella M. DePaulo. 24 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...truth without necessarily lying can arise in virtually any...liking instead predict greater truthfulness? In longer-term relationships...relationship history. History...
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Gender and Truthfulness in Daily Life Situations, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Kelly A. Robinson, Loraine K. Obler, R. Thomas Boone. 11 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...probably lying (4), or definitely lying (5). RESULTS To test the...rater, there was an average truthfulness rating based upon six assertions...definitely lying, 4 =...
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Designating Discretion and Openness: The Problematics of Truthfulness in Everyday Life, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now
by Robert C. Prus. 22 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...information sharing, honesty, truthfulness, lying, deception, and the like. One...Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying the whole way to Hell (William...1966)...
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Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility (Chap. 4 "Truthfulness") » Read Now
by William J. Doherty. 212 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Cognitive and Social Factors in Early Deception (Chap. 7 "Children's Lying and Truthfulness: Implications for Children's Testimony") » Read Now
by Stephen J. Ceci, Michelle DeSimone Leichtman, Maribeth Putnick. 180 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...7 Childrens Lying and Truthfulness: Implications for...differences between lying and truthfulness, as well as their...because purposeful lying is a matter of...
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Discussing Truth and Lies in Interviews with Children: Whether, Why, and How?, in Personality and Social Psychology Review » Read Now
by Mary Lyn Huffman, Amye R. Warren, Susan M. Larson. 10 pgs.

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...behind discussing truth and lying with child witnesses is that such discussions will increase the truthfulness of childrens interview statements...Bussey, K. ( 1992 )...
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The Willingness of Children to Lie and the Assessment of Credibility in an Ecologically Relevant Laboratory Setting, in Personality and Social Psychology Review » Read Now
by Marcus Choi Tye, Susan L. Amato, Charles R. Honts, Mary K. Devitt, Douglas Peters. 18 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...tell when a child was lying. It would not be unreasonable...at some point the truthfulness of a childs statement...be on determining the truthfulness of a particular...
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Effects of Situational Variables on Judgments about Deception and Detection Accuracy, in Basic and Applied Social Psychology » Read Now
by Murray G. Millar, Karen Millar. 10 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...that the communicator may be lying. For example, Burgoon...used to assess the statements truthfulness ( Calfee Ford, 1988...believed the applicant was lying. After judging...
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Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography » Read Now
by Timothy Dow Adams. 205 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in America, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
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The Politics of Lying: Implications for Democracy » Read Now
by Dave Bartlett, Lionel Cliffe, Maureen Ramsay. 236 pgs.

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This book attempts to synthesize a pervasive phenomenon that is mentioned tangentially in political analyses, but here receives a systematic & theoretical treatment commensurate with its significance to the working of 'democratic' political practice.
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Truth and Falsehood in Visual Images » Read Now
by David Carrier, Mark Roskill. 145 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library