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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author and host of NPR's Hidden Brain comes a counter- intertuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success. Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities, and to the planet. But in Useful Delusions, host of NPR's Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam argues that, paradoxically, deceiving ourselves and others can also play a vital role in...
2) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
Series
Description
"According to the authors, people who are in self-deception live and work as if trapped in a box. Blind to the reality around them, they undermine performance - both their own and others'. The problem is, being in the box, they can't see that they undermine performance. Consequently, they don't change, and neither do their results. As Leadership and Self-Deception shows, this phenomenon occurs frequently in organizations. Most people spend much of...
4) Mistakes were made (but not by me): why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A NEW EDITION UPDATED IN 2020 • Why is it so hard to say "I made a mistake" - and really believe it?
When we make mistakes, cling to outdated attitudes, or mistreat other people, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so, unconsciously, we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right-a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Explores the complex impact dishonesty has on our lives and everyday society. Interweaving groundbreaking experiments from celebrated behavioral economist Dan Ariely with personal stories from individuals affected by the unraveling of their lies, Ariely and a team of scientists uncover our propensity to be dishonestâsometimes even unknowingly. What's revealed is a fascinating look at the forces behind our collective behavior and the many truths...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
In 1950s San Francisco, as Jim Ferguson, an elderly garage owner with a heart condition prepares to retire and sell his business, he is offered the deal of a lifetime by record-company owner Chris Harman, but Al Miller, a somewhat irresponsible mechanic who works in Jims Garage, believes that Harman is a crook and sets out to protect his mentor.
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