| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 414 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; The Mythomanias: The Nature of Deceptionand Self-Deception; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Living Behind a Facade: Notes on the Agenda; 2. Self-Deception: A View From the Rationalist Perspective; 3. Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception: Further Consideration; 4. The Tricks and Traps of Perceptual Illusions; 5. Wishful Thinking From a Pragmatic Hypothesis-Testing Perspective; 6. Identifying the Origin of Mental Experience; 7. How Can We Be Sure? Using Truth Criteria to Validate Memories; 8. The Single-Mindedness and Isolation of Dreams |
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9. Denial, Anxiety, and Information Processing10. Imposture Syndromes: A Clinical View; 11. Neuropsychology of Self-Deception: The Case of Prosopagnosia; 12. Mnemopoesis: Memories That Wish Themselves to Be Recalled?; 13. Phantom Limb Phenomena and Their Neural Mechanism; 14. Awareness Salvaged by Curming: Rehabilitation by Deception in Audiovisual Neglect; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Recently, there has been a renewal of interest in the broad and loosely bounded range of phenomena called deception and self-deception. This volume addresses this interest shared by philosophers, social and clinical psychologists, and more recently, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors provide timely, reliable, and insightful coverage of the normal range of errors in perception, memory, and behavior. They place these phenomena on a continuum with various syndromes and neuropsychiatric diseases where falsehood in perception, self-perception, cognition, and behaviors are |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Deception.
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Self-deception.
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Mythomania.
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Denial (Psychology)
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Self-perception.
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Denial, Psychological
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Deception
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Delusions -- psychology
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Self Concept
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Perceptual Disorders -- psychology
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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Self-perception
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Denial (Psychology)
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Deception
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Mythomania
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Self-deception
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Myslobodsky, Michael
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| ISBN |
9781134793945 |
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1134793944 |
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1299698611 |
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9781299698611 |
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9780203774151 |
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0203774159 |
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9781134794089 |
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1134794088 |
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9781134794010 |
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1134794010 |
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9781138997981 |
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1138997986 |
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