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

Author

Robert Trivers

Call Number

• 153.4 T841 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Basic Books, c2011.

Physical Description

xvi, 397 p. ; 25 cm.

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
• The psychology of self-deception
• Self-deception in everyday life
• Self-deception in aviation and space disasters
• False historical narratives
• Self-deception and war
• Religion and self-deception
• Self-deception and the structure of the social sciences
• Fighting self-deception in our own lives.