Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious MindDeceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been talking, writing and singing about deception ever since Eve told God, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." Our seemingly insatiable appetite for stories of deception spans the extremes of culture from King Lear to Little Red Riding Hood, retaining a grip on our imaginations despite endless repetition. These tales of deception are so enthralling because they speak to something fundamental in the human condition. The ever-present possibility of deceit is a crucial dimension of all human relationships, even the most central: our relationships with our very own selves. |
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The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind David Livingstone Smith. increasingly adept at social ... cognitive development even further. Between about five and seven million years ago the hominid and chimpanzee lines ...
... unconscious mind were far off the mark. Since the 1950s, experimental psychologists have developed ideas about unconscious mental processing that are very different from the Freudian ones, and nowadays, cognitive scientists propose that ...
... unconscious “mindreaders.”4 The ability to analyze unconsciously the meaning of the behavior of people around us is ... cognitive unconscious. The social unconscious must be smart, in fact very smart, as well as highly adaptive. It must ...
The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind David Livingstone ... cognitive science. Science is the disciplined passion to find out, to make ... unconscious communication. It shows scientists of the mind where they might ...
The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind David Livingstone Smith. with thyme, all designed to deceive ... cognitive sophistication. Children who are unable to lie, as George Washington reputedly was (in yet another lie ...
Contents
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The Evolution of Machiavelli | 50 |
The Architecture of the Machiavellian Mind | 79 |
Social Poker | 104 |
Hot Gossip | 122 |
Machiavelli on the Couch | 148 |
Conspiratorial Whispers and Covert Operations | 168 |
Descartess Demon | 195 |
Index | 233 |
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Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind David Livingstone Smith No preview available - 2004 |