A01=Ziyad Marar
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Author_Ziyad Marar
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BSE Crisis
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Celebrity Big Brother
Cheater Detection Module
cognitive biases
Courteous Avoidance
crooked
Crooked Timber
Del Boy
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Doomsday Machine
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erence
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Fairy Tales
Feminist Bank Teller
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Green Eyed Monster
Gut Feeling
Human Glance
illusions
impression management
Lady Catherine De Bourgh
Legitimate Authorization
Madame De Tourvel
moral psychology
Mutual Knowledge
narrative
Narrative Illusions
philosophical ethics
Pop Star
psychological mechanisms of lying
self-deception
social cognition
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UK Secretary
Vicomte De Valmont
Wayward Desires
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781844651511
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Most of us think we are about 15 per cent cleverer, nicer, more attractive and better drivers than others think we are. It seems deception begins at home. After all the most convincing liars convince themselves first. Sellers and buyers, parents and children, friends and lovers must conceal from each other the unutterable truth that they don't believe or want the same things. In this book, Ziyad Marar throws a revealing light on the many ways deception is woven into the texture of human life: our wiring leaves us easily suckered by persuasive illusions, while our contradictory desires (for sex and honesty, money and kindness, for cake and losing weight) force us to cook up self-serving stories. We manage flattering impressions with effortless skill, while pretending our sins and self-indulgences are beyond our control.Drawing on insights from philosophy, psychology and literature, Marar explores the implications for living well in the shadow of Kant's humbling thought that "out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".
Ziyad Marar is deputy managing director and publishing director at Sage Publications.
