Across a host of issues such as the advent of fake news, climate-science denial, and Bernie Madoff's appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. This book provides a scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods.
Across a host of issues such as the advent of fake news, climate-science denial, and Bernie Madoff's appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. This book provides a scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Timothy R. Levine is distinguished professor and chair of the department of communication studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has been studying deception for more than twenty-five years and has published his research in more than 140 articles in academic journals.
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1. List of Illustrations 2. Preface 3. Acknowledgments 4. List of Studies and Experiments 5. Part I: The Social Science of Deception 6. Chapter 1. The Science of Deception 7. Chapter 2. Cues 8. Chapter 3. Deception Detection Accuracy 9. Chapter 4. Rivals 10. Chapter 5. Critiquing the Rivals 11. Part II: Truth-Default Theory 12. Chapter 6. Truth-Default Theory Summarized 13. Chapter 7. Defining Deception (Beyond BFLs and Conscious Intent) 14. Chapter 8. Information Manipulation (Beyond BFLs and Conscious Intent, Part 2) 15. Chapter 9. Prevalence 16. Chapter 10. Deception Motives 17. Chapter 11. Truth-Bias and Truth-Default 18. Chapter 12. The Veracity Effect and Truth-Lie Base-Rates 19. Chapter 13. Explaining Slightly-Better-than-Chance Accuracy 20. Chapter 14. Improving Accuracy 21. Chapter 15. The TDT Perspective 22. Notes 23. Bibliography 24. Index