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The folly of fools : the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life

text The folly of fools : the logic of deceit and self-deception in human life

Summary

Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.

Contents
The evolutionary logic of self-deception -- Deception in nature -- Neurophysiology and levels of imposed self-deception -- Self-deception in the family -- and the split self -- Deceit, self-deception, and sex -- The immunology of self-deception --... Read more
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xvi, 397 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Basic Books 2011

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 153.4 TRI in Adult Non-fiction Available

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